RE: Clever girl.....
October 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2012 at 3:51 pm by jonb.)
For shear ruthless Machiavellian guile the Spartans are hard to better-
The story goes that once in a while the Spartans would announce that they were low in numbers an would consider promoting the most able Helots (the slave class) to Spartan status. When the Helots applied to be Spartans they would be executed, because the Spartans only wanted subservient slaves, and it was a good way to find out which slaves thought of themselves as being anything more than just possessions.
The story goes that once in a while the Spartans would announce that they were low in numbers an would consider promoting the most able Helots (the slave class) to Spartan status. When the Helots applied to be Spartans they would be executed, because the Spartans only wanted subservient slaves, and it was a good way to find out which slaves thought of themselves as being anything more than just possessions.
