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Literature: Lotze 1959; van Wees 2003; Paradiso 2007; Lewis 2018: 143–6.

Between free men and slaves are the helots of the Lacedaemonians, the penestai of the Thessalians, the klarôtai (i.e. “those belonging to the allotted land”) and mnôitai of the Cretans, the dôrophoroi (i.e. “tribute-bearers”) of the Mariandynoi,¹³ the gymnêtes (i.e. “unarmed”) of the Argives and the korynêphoroi (i.e. “club-bearers”) of the Sikyonians.¹⁴ But those helots who are released to freedom are called neodamôdeis (i.e. “new members of the community”) by the Lacedaemonians.

 Which groups are enumerated in this passage? In which parts of the Greek world are they located?

 How are these groups characterized? On what grounds?

 Do the passages below by Strabo (1.6) and Plutarch (1.7–8) support such a characterization?

 Did these groups exist when Pollux was compiling his thesaurus? Cf. 1.6.