| One effect of the helot phenomenon was the brutalization of the Spartan elite itself. |
| Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved. |
| Those scholars claim that, in order to prevent another helot revolt, Lycurgus devised the highly militarized communal system that made Sparta unique among the city-states of Greece. |
| The military structure of Spartan society was shaped by the necessity of holding down the helot class that did all the actual work. |
| A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful. |
| Plato, for example, remarked that the helot system was the most controversial example of servitude in Greece. |
