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The Dead Warrior Society
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Sparta's Teenage Asymmetrical Warriors - The Krypteia
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Zachary
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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In this episode we discuss the secret group of Spartan youths known as the Krypteia: an elite cohort of students from the Agoge who would deploy into Messenia to hunt down and assassinate problematic Helots.