People undergoing this process were given a single red cloak each year, and pulled reeds out by hand from the Eurotas river. Membership in a syssitia was granted after completing this process. Early failures in this process were put on Mount Taygetus. Eurypontids and Agaids 
People undergoing this process were given a single red cloak each year, and pulled reeds out by hand from the Eurotas river. Membership in a syssitia was granted after completing this process. Early failures in this process were put on Mount Taygetus. Eurypontids and Agaids were exempted from this process due to their place in the two royal families. According to Thucydides, the place which enacted this process had a cautious, slow national character. In a violent part of this process called the krypteia, participants in this process had to kill a helot with impunity. For 10 points, name this system which, after exposing unfit infants to the elements, reared almost all other males in a militaristic ancient Greek city-state.
People undergoing this process were given a single red cloak each year, and pulled reeds out by hand from the Eurotas river.
agoge [accept descriptive answers which refer to the education, military training, coming of age, etc. of Spartan boys]