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THE SPARTOI (Sparti) were a tribe of warlike, earth-born men which sprang fully grown and armed for battle from the sown teeth of a Drakon (Dragon) sacred to the war-god Ares.The first of the Spartoi were sown by the hero Kadmos (Cadmus) from the teeth of the Drakon of the Ismenian Spring of Thebes. As they were sprouting from the earth, he cast a stone amongst them and they fell to fighting. The five survivors afterwards assisted Kadmos in founding the city of Thebes.A second batch of Spartoi was sown by Iason (Jason) in the fields of Kolkhis (Colchis) on the Black Sea--a task demanded of him by King Aeetes in his quest for the Golden Fleece. Like Kadmos Iason threw a stone amongst the sprouting warriors and they slew one another in battle.