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Being a Spartiate - that is an hereditary member of the warrior class which was the core of Spartan society and structure. Other free men (perioeci = 'the livers around') and the serfs were the lower orders.

Incessant wars caused the drastic shrinking of this privileged class to the stage where they could no longer compete with the other Greek cities numerically and Sparta slipped into obscurity.

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