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About Crypteia
The Crypteia, also referred to as Krypteia or Krupteia, was an ancient Spartan state institution. The kryptai either principally sought out and killed helots across Laconia and Messenia as part of a policy of terrorising and intimidating the enslaved population; practiced a form of military training; endured hardships as an initiation ordeal; or served a combination of all these purposes, possibly varying over time. Whatever its true nature, the Crypteia was an element of the Spartan state's child-rearing system for upper-class males.
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