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Aktungbby · 11-14-21, 01:24 PM

Surely your not including serf-like helots with outright captive slaves!! That would be an insult to any peasant!

Although every Autumn, the Spartan army's Crypteia units would freely murder any helot they wished to w/o reprisal...generally in neighboring conquered Messinia. Helots, at 7 to 1 ratio to the elite Spartans, did most of the farming(hence the takeover of fertile Messinia??!) and as every hoplite knows: "an army travels on its stomach!"

11-14-21, 01:24 PM	#1316
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,886 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Surely your not including serf-like helots with outright captive slaves!! That would be an insult to any peasant! Although every Autumn, the Spartan army's Crypteia units would freely murder any helot they wished to w/o reprisal...generally in neighboring conquered Messinia. Helots, at 7 to 1 ratio to the elite Spartans, did most of the farming(hence the takeover of fertile Messinia??!) and as every hoplite knows: "an army travels on its stomach!" __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 11-14-21 at 01:37 PM.