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	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 168 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The service was manned by young Spartans appointed annually for the purpose by the Ephors, and their duty was to put dangerous or apparently dangerous Helots out of the way without more ado.
		A later and erroneous idea represented the Crypteia as a murderous chase of the Helots, annually conducted by the Spartan youth.
		A Greek historian, born in Cnidus in Caria, and a contemporary of Xenophon.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0171.html (779 words)

	Apolyton Civilization Forums > Miscellaneous > Archive > AC-Democracy Team Game III-Archive > Golden Dawn
		Then the Crypteia Division technicians (who were responsible for setting up the wargame scenario) had been told that they were running live to reinstate the Command Center links before the deadlines were exceeded.
		CRYPTEIA Commander: "Several months ago Spartan infiltrators in the Morganite government discovered that the Morganite laboratories had made significant breakthroughs in their research of fusion power.
		CRYPTEIA Photographic Expert: "Indeed, we were able to take these photographs which show that the Morganites now possess advanced planet buster weapons.
	apolyton.net /forums/showthread.php?postid=4184979 (3479 words)

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		At the age of 20, the young man had to patrol the mountains on the border of Attica.
		This patrolling of the mountains recalls the hard crypteia of Sparta.
		In Athens, once the Iran was recognized as a soldier having finished his training, he could sit at the table with 15 other soldiers and have a common meal called Phiditia.
	www.echohorizon.org /projects/9899/AC/Greece/ACDylan (916 words)

	CoH Stratics - About Cryptic Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The ex-Atarians had been circulating their technology demo under the name "Catch Games" but that changed when the RPGers came aboard with the "City of Heroes" concept.
		They had planned on calling their company "Crypteia" (an ancient Spartan secret society).
		After some discussions, compromises were made and 'Cryptic' was born.
	coh.stratics.com /content/intro/aboutcryptic.php (691 words)

	USATODAY.com - Excerpt from 'The Spartans' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While justly famed for their hoplite battle tactics of co-ordinated mass infantry manoeuvres, in which eight-deep shield walls bulldozered the enemy off the field of battle or terrorized them into giving up and running away, the Spartans were also enthralled by espionage and intelligence gathering.
		Sinisterly, the most promising teenage boys on the threshold of adulthood were enrolled in a kind of secret police force known as the Crypteia (roughly 'Special Ops Brigade'), the principal aim of which was to murder selected troublemaking Helots and spread terror among the rest.
		This is just one of many aspects of the Spartan system that modern readers will find hard to stomach, or indeed credit.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/excerpts/2003-05-28-spartans_x.htm (2243 words)

	Jowett, "Introduction to Plato’s Laws" ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Life is to wear, as at Athens, a joyous and festive look; there are to be Bacchic choruses, and men of mature age are encouraged in moderate potations.
		On the other hand, the common meals, the public education, the crypteia are borrowed from Sparta and not from Athens, and the superintendence of private life, which was to be practised by the governors, has also its prototype in Sparta.
		There is, too, the so-called Crypteia or secret service, in which our youth wander about the country night and day unattended, and even in winter go unshod and have no beds to lie on.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0814 (16551 words)

	History of Greece: The Golden Age of Greece
		The boys learned to read and write but their primary educational goal was to learn to be brave and strong.
		Maybe the most frightening of the Spartan institutions were the Crypteia, where young boys were sent to the countryside to live off the land similar to 'Outward Bound' except for a critical difference.
		These boys were permitted to kill any helot they ran into.
	www.ahistoryofgreece.com /goldenage.htm (5937 words)

	tim1965: There's a big article in today's "New Yo
		Boys between the ages of 10 and 13 engaged in mutual public flogging, to see who could stand more punishment.
		At the age of 13, males were formed into four-man squads and sent into the countryside in the rite known as the "Crypteia" -- the Secret.
		They carried no clothing, and had nothing but a dagger with them.
	tim1965.livejournal.com /557408.html (3786 words)

	300 - Page 3 - Military Photos
		That said, anyone associating the Spartans with 'freedom' needs to talk to a couple of heliots.
		Well, the "Crypteia" team (undercovered Spartan "agency" made to terminate Helots who tried or may try to start revolutions) was even worst for them.
		But we all should agree that every "great nation" into the ages has it's own "agencies" to terminate things that could threat it's interests - even today!
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?p=2060594#post2060594 (605 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For Mark Robson: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It would perhaps have been much more effective to give a more in depth overview of Spartan culture and life during the different periods, either as a separate section of interwoven with the history of dates and battles.
		For example, mention is made in several places of the repression of the Helots, and the presence of a sinister band known as the Crypteia, translated as "secret police." But how, exactly, did this work?
		How did a group of no more than 1,000 to 3,000 fighting age men keep a presumably larger population subjugated, particularly when so many of those men wre away campaigning much of the time?
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2FQFR5P82TRCQ?ie=UTF8 (3242 words)

	Spartans - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		What name was given to the Spartan organisation tasked with keeping the helots in line?
		The Crypteia controlled the Helots using a variety of methods from simple fear to outright murder.
		The organisation used the night as a cloak for its activities which helped spread fear and even terror.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Spartans-179181.html (805 words)

	Laws by Plato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		good beating; there is, too, the so-called Crypteia, or secret service, in which wonderful endurance is shown-our people wander over the whole country by day and by night, and even in winter have not a shoe to their foot, and are without beds to lie upon, and have to attend upon themselves.
		Marvellous, too, is the endurance which our citizens show in their naked exercises, contending against the violent summer heat; and there are many similar practices, to speak of which in detail would be endless.
	www.4literature.net /Plato/Laws/4.html (933 words)

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