... for Spartan society. One, it directly controlled the population of the helots, and two, it gave the boy valuable experience in the unnatural field of killing. As always, every event mandated by the state was for the sole purpose of creating a warrior that would die for his homeland. Bibliography Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics. David Ross. Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Aristotle. The Politics. T.A. Sinclair. Ed. New York: Viking Press, 1992 ... . Flaceliere, Robert. Daily Life In Greece At The Time Of Pericles. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1965. Herodotus. The Historie...

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... of main reasons for Sparta's transformation into a military state after the savage second Messenian War in the 6th century was to create a state of soldiers to effectively control the helots, who vastly outnumbered the Spartiates. This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed ... to control them as he states "results of this kind go to show that the state has yet to learn the right method of ... handling its subject population", in r...

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