They produced most of the agriculture for a notable militaristic city, and they could become neodamodes by paying 500 drachmas for emancipation.
members of this group who served in Chalcidice became known as "Brasidians" for the name of their commander, Brasidus, and many of them tried to relieve the siege of Sphacteria, although the outcome at that battle allowed many of these people to desert. One incident involving this group was said to have caused an earthquake after 200 of them were found and slain in a temple to Poseidon near Mount Taenarus. Mothones were members of these people who had completed the agoge. They had war declared on them every year during the Krypteria, where the most physically fit of these people would be murdered by knife-wielding youths. Many of them were the result of the Dorian invasion of Messenia and Laconia. They produced most of the agriculture for a notable militaristic city, and they could become neodamodes by paying 500 drachmas for emancipation. For 10 points, name these people, who served as serfs and slaves to Sparta.
members of this group who served in Chalcidice became known as "Brasidians" for the name of their commander, Brasidus, and many of them tried to relieve the siege of Sphacteria, although the outcome at that battle allowed many of these people to desert.
Helots [prompt on "Spartans"]