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Neodamodes
The neodamodes were helots of Sparta who were freed after serving for a time as hoplites in the Spartan army. When the category first appeared is uncertain: the historian Jean Ducat concluded that their status was largely modelled on the measures taken for the Brasidians, the helots freed after taking part in the expedition of Brasidas in 424 BCE. Their existence is attested from 420 to 369 BCE, and 2,000 of them are recorded in the campaign of Agesilaus II in Ionia between 396 and 394 BCE. The name joins neos, "new", and demos, but they never acquired full citizenship, and the only community they joined was that of the perioeci.
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