Weeks 3/4 - Slavery in Classical Athens/Spartan Helotage

Which passage states: “we lent… one hundred and five minae on the security of a mining property in Maroneia and of thirty slaves”?

[Demosthenes] 37.4

Which inscription records stoneworkers and slaves such as: “Somenes slave of Ameiniades, 18 drachmas; Sindron slave of Simias, 12 drachmas 5 obols…”?

IG I³ 476.183ff (Erechtheion accounts)

Where does a speaker say: “I already find difficulty in carrying it on myself, and as yet I am unable to buy someone to relieve me of the work”?

Lysias 24.6

Which source says: “In Lacedaemon are to be found those who are the most enslaved (douloi) and those who are the most free.”

Critias 88B F37 D-K

Hat source outlines that the Spartans reduced Helos by seige and the inhabitants became the first slaves of the Lacedaemonian state

Pausanias 3.20.6

Which source lists:

“Between free men and slaves are the Helots of the Lakedaimonians…”

Pollux, Onomasticon 3.83

Which Spartan constitution text says:

“He… gave the power of using other men’s slaves in case of necessity… a similar plan of borrowing… applied to horses also”?

Zen. Lac. Pol. 6.3

Which source reports that young Spartans

“came down into the highways and killed every Helot whom they caught”? “slew the sturdiest and best of them"?

Plutarch, Lycurgus 28.2

Which passage states the Helots judged brave

“all disappeared… no man was able to say… how they came by their deaths”?

Plutarch, Lycurgus 28.3 + Thucydides 4.80

Where is it outlined that ephors:

“made formal declaration of war upon the Helots”?

Plutarch, Lycurgus 28.4

Which source reports that Spartans:

“forced them to drink too much… ordered them to sing songs and dance dances that were low and ridiculous”?

Plutarch, Lycurgus 28.4

Which passage says Helots refused to sing Terpander, Alcman, and Spendon:

“their masters did not allow it”?

Plutarch Lycurgus 28.5

Which source describes a conspiracy signalled by putting on:

“a dogskin cap (kyne)… for the citizens could be recognized by their long hair”?

Antiochos of Syracuse, FGrHist 555 F13

Which account states that Helots

“must wear a dogskin cap… and receive a stipulated number of beatings each year… so that they would never forget they were slaves”?

Myron of Priene, FGrHist 106 F2

Where is it said that if a Helot

“exceeded the vigour proper to a slave’s condition, they made death the penalty”?

Myron of Priene, FGrHist 106 F2

Which text states they

“set them a portion (of produce) which they were constantly to hand over”?

Myron of Priene, FGrHist 106 F2

Which historian says:

“Their master was permitted neither to manumit them nor to sell them beyond the boundaries”?

Ephorus FGrHist 70 F117

Which source says:

“The helots worked the land… paying over the tribute set down in the past… a curse was laid on anyone who charged more”?

Plutarch, Moralia 239e

Which poet describes subjugated farmers:

“bringing to their masters under grim compulsion, half of what the soil bears as fruit”?

Tyrtaeus fr. 6 West

Which passage says the helots

“are like enemies continually lying in wait for their misfortunes”?

Aristotle, Politics 1269a