Trophimoi
Sign in to saveThe trophimoi (Greek: τρόφιμοι, students or pupils, from τροφός trophós food) were children of non-Spartan citizens (perioeci or foreigners), who underwent Spartan education.
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The trophimoi (Greek: τρόφιμοι, students or pupils, from τροφός trophós food) were children of non-Spartan citizens (perioeci or foreigners), who underwent Spartan education.
The trophimoi were temporarily adopted by a Spartan oikos. The trophimoi sons of Perioeci represented, like the neodamodes and the nothoi (natural sons of slaves and citizens), an intermediate class at Sparta. They could rise to the status of citizens. According to Plutarch, Agis IV intended them to strengthen the citizenry, which had become too meagre for Sparta's wartime necessities.
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