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Was Lysander one of the only Spartan Generals that wasn’t part of the Royal family or was this fairly common amongst others with helot/slave origins? Did the role of his father as a Heracleidae play a role in him receiving military training?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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