Quote Originally Posted by Megalos Danielos Psychopatos View Post
They didn't. But they used them as a light missile infantry and porters;fighting at Platei They had 5000 homoioi, 5000 hoplites perioioi and about 35 000 helots for example. When Sparta started falling, They started to give full laws to some part of helots, but even then they probably didn't fight as hoplites...

Soorry for my poor english.
They did. See this:
http://books.google.gr/books?id=htg5...um=6&ct=result

As what you said about the Homioi and Perikoikoi, it's true. As true as what you said about the Heilotes, with the only wrong part being what you mentioned as last. They did fight as hoplites, that's a fact.

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