If you were a slave back in ancient Greece, you would prefer to be a slave in Athens. A Spartan slave would constantly be afraid for his life. Every year, the Spartans declared war on their slaves and they even had a 'special-ops' group called the Krypteia who were allowed to kill any slave they believed was plotting against the city. The killing of slaves was openly accepted in Sparta.
The name for a slave in ancient Sparta was "Helot", meaning "imperior" in Greek.
A slave in Sparta.
A helot is a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta. Or slave
Slaves or enslaved people in Sparta were called helots.
Sparta's population was mostly slaves, and their economy depended on slave labor. A slave revolt would certainly be economically devastating, and there was a distinct chance that the slaves would win and overthrow the Spartan government, so obviously this was always something Sparta was worried about.
If you where not protected by powerful familly or friends then you where sold to be a slave or a working girl
There was a bloody and violent slave revolt in the province of Messina in 640 BC
Slave : Ghulaam Galley slave : baandhwa
the Helots
Helots.
Leda, Queen of Sparta. Helen too, was a Queen of Sparta.