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>The wiki does agree that they were pretty corrupt, but also makes point that Ephor's came from the general population. No - they came from the citizen populat
by brazzy 3y ago
>The wiki does agree that they were pretty corrupt, but also makes point that Ephor's came from the general population.
No - they came from the citizen population, which in Sparta's case was a tiny percentage of the entire population, with most of the rest being helots, who were basically especially badly treated slaves.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoThat is slaves. But were soldiers not citizens?
- int_19h 3y agoThe Spartan army at Thermopylae included helots, for example.