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The city of Sparta adopted the hoplite phalanx in the middle of the |
In Sparta, the city provided weapons to the citizens, the helots and the former helots. The first could join the hoplite corps on the condition of a minimum contribution to the syssitia (public messes). This measure was systematized during or right after the 2nd Messenian war, in the Classical period, when people demanded and their kings proceeded to the land's distribution. As a result, all citizens became hoplites and were obliged to follow a common "agoge", that is education, through which the concept of homoioi (equals) was developed.
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