• The trophimoi (Greek: τρόφιμοι, students or pupils, from τροφός trophós food) were children of non-Spartan citizens (perioeci or foreigners), who underwent...
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    sons of the ruling houses, Eurypontid and Agiad, were exempted; a few trophimoi (very well-connected metics or perioeci) took part by special permission...
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  • original inhabitants of the city. There were two exceptions to this rule. Trophimoi ("foster sons") were foreign teenagers invited to study. This was meant...
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  • Ekklesia Navarchy Social groups Spartiates Perioeci Helots Neodamodes Trophimoi Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army...
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  • Ekklesia Navarchy Social groups Spartiates Perioeci Helots Neodamodes Trophimoi Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army...
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  • of servility, the word designates slaves born to the home; τρόφιμοι / trophimoi: pupils, adopted children, whom Plutarch classified among the xenoi (strangers);...
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    ancestry to the original inhabitants of the city. There were two exceptions. trophimoi or "foster sons" were foreign students invited to study. The Athenian...
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    Ekklesia Navarchy Social groups Spartiates Perioeci Helots Neodamodes Trophimoi Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army...
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  • Ekklesia Navarchy Social groups Spartiates Perioeci Helots Neodamodes Trophimoi Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army...
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    Ekklesia Navarchy Social groups Spartiates Perioeci Helots Neodamodes Trophimoi Mothax Sciritae Epeunacti Partheniae Society Agoge Crypteia Spartan army...
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