This polity, under its leaders Agasicles and Leon, lost the "Battle of the Fetters" to the Tegeans. At its yearly krypteia, five annually elected leaders would declare war on this polity's serfs, allowing citizens to kill a serf without penalty; those leaders were known as ephors, the serfs as helots. This polity's agoge sy
This polity, under its leaders Agasicles and Leon, lost the "Battle of the Fetters" to the Tegeans. At its yearly krypteia, five annually elected leaders would declare war on this polity's serfs, allowing citizens to kill a serf without penalty; those leaders were known as ephors, the serfs as helots. This polity's agoge system educated and trained boys for war beginning at age seven. Its constitution is ascribed to Lycurgus, and this city-state led the Peloponnesian League. Led by King Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae, FTP name this rival of Athens.
This polity, under its leaders Agasicles and Leon, lost the "Battle of the Fetters" to the Tegeans.
Sparta