### id282225748 Spartan forts helped Athenian slaves escape > As we can see, and as the sources attest, the Helots appear to have been quite prone to escaping from Spartan control. Particularly during the Peloponnesian War, this became an important strategy of the Athenians, hoping to perhaps destabilise Spartan territory with raids and Helot revolts. However, it is important to remember that this willingness to escape was not unique to the Helots and was not the product of any particularly harsh treatment of the Helots by the Spartans. The Spartans established a fort within Attika at Dekeleia, and from there plundered the land about Athens, and more than 20,000 slaves are said to have escaped to that fort (Thuc. [7.27](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D27)). - [View Highlight](https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/p13hr6/do_we_know_about_any_escaped_spartan_helots/hv5d1tk?__readwiseLocation=0%2F8%2F0%2F4%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A0%2C2%2F8%2F0%2F4%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F4%2F1%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F0%2F0%2F3%2F1%2F0%2F3%3A2#:~:text=As%20we%20can%20see%2C%20and%2Cto%20that%20fort%20(Thuc.%207.27).) - [[Do we know about any escaped spartan helots AskHistorians by Interesting Inquirer#id282225748 Spartan forts helped Athenian slaves escape|View in Vault]] - [n] I kind of like the idea of doing a story just completely focused on modeling Greek slaves escaping Greek control, just a total snark backlash subversion of Ancient Greece. #storystem/fic