Agesilaus II is known as the greatest Spartan King. Credit: Niko978, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The helots, as the slaves in ancient Sparta were known, were the subjugated part of the population that actually ...
The population of Sparta was never large, and this was a constant threat to the Spartans, who needed many descendants—particularly soldiers—to secure their dominance over the Perioikoi (free ...