OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation · J199
Paper 2, Paper 5
Revise: GreeceThis independence depended partly on helot labour. Helots were an unfree population subjected to Spartan rule, working in agriculture and domestic service. Helot women undertook tasks such as weaving, cleaning and childcare, freeing citizen women from much routine labour.
- Revise: Spartan Social Structure and the Agoge
An unfree member of Sparta’s subject population, obliged to work for the Spartans, especially by cultivating land.