helot

This was not a random, deserted headland, as Thucydides has the two Athenian generals sneeringly say; it was territory in the heart of Messenia, among the helot population that was such a constant worry to Sparta.

These unfortunates were dubbed helots. Historian Jacob Burkhardt, recounting the history of Sparta in his History of Greek Culture, noted that the "rise of Sparta was especially hard on the peoples it subjugated.

Foreign languages such as German, Spanish, and Italian are accorded higher status in France than regional languages and non-European immigrant languages such as Arabic (Beardsmore, Helot, & Young, 2005) which has reportedly been restricted as a primary language tool to promote student instruction (Young & Helot, 2003).

The book is narrated to his captors by Xeones, a helot slave and Spartan squire who had fought in that battle and had been captured by the Persians.

I have scraped clean the plateau from the filthy earth Earth the unchaste, the fruitful, the great grand maternal Sprawling creature, lolling at random and supine The broad-faced, sluttish helot, the slave wife Grubby and warm, who opens unashamed Her thousand wombs unguarded to the lickerous sun.

Down - 2 Cheap-jack; 3 Ill; 4 Governor; 5 Helot; 6 Fitness; 7 Oread; 8 Apostles' creed; 9 Expatriate; 12 American dream; 14 Opposed; 18 Earthed; 19 Effeminacy; 22 Leg warmer; 23 Billhead; 25 Ravioli; 28 Utter; 29 Copal; 32 Eel.

" Tony Pulis' Palace host his former club Stoke on Saturday, and winger Yannick Bolasie said: "I am sure helot, but I think now we are showing much more consistency in our defending."

While the inclusion of sustainability education is currently rather meagre, this project has put the issues before us, and led us to explore and express options for expanding our repertoire of sustainability education content and process, as part of a 'pedagogy of the possible' (Helot & O'Laoire, 2011).

Refinery Helot Refinery yield (expressed as a percentage) represents the percent of finished product produced from input of crude oil and net input of unfinished oils.

(126) Christine Helot & Andrea Young, Bilingalism and Language Education in French Primary Schools: Why and How Should Migrant Languages Be Valued?, 5 INT'L J.