Spartan Society - The Homoioi

Spartan Society - The Homoioi

1. The Equals

   • Also called 'Homoioi'
     • All Spartan men were assigned a plot of land and some slaves
       • Slaves were called 'Helots'
       • The land was the source of the income
         • Helots did all the farming and all the manual jobs
       • To be a Homoioi, you had to be the son of a Spartan mother and father
   • All their attention was on being the best soilder
     • Didn't have a 'normal' job

2. Also had to be brought up in the strict disapline of the agoge schooling system

   • This meant being trained for battle from a young age

3. You had to belong to a dining or mess club

   • This was called a 'syssition
   • This was a group of 15 people who always ate dinner together
     • You had to be 20 years old

4. In the Syssition, you had to be voted in by all the other members to be able to join