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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Greece—The Olympic Games 173

for war. There dwelt among them many of the Greeks of older race, and
these tilled the farms and shared the produce with their Dorian rulers. The
Spartans had also one special kind of Grecian servitors whom they called Helots.
These helots were treated as slaves, or even worse. When they grew too nu-
merous and desperate, the Spartan youths acquired training in the art of war by
going out among the helots and slaying such of them as seemed most dangerous.
The youth were also trained in self-repression. They were encouraged to
steal, since the practice of thieving developed keenness, quickness, caution, and
other warlike qualities. But if caught in theft they were severely punished,
not for the deed, but for the blundering which had left them open to detection.
Thus we have the well-known story of the Spartan lad who, having stolen a
fox, concealed it beneath his cloak; and when it began to bite and tear at his
body, he endured the torture without a sign until it killed him, rather then
betray himself by any move or outcry.

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