Reflections on Helotic Slavery and Freedom

Sian Lewis

Sunday 25 July 2021

by Orlando Patterson

Abstract: This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the problems of the nature of helotry and, more specifically, its relation to the condition of slavery; of its origin; and the problem of the origins of freedom and its relation to the Spartan system.

Chapter in Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, eds Nino Luraghi and Susan E. Alcock (2003), Harvard University Press, pp. 289-307.

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