This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed to control them as he states "results of this kind go to show that the state has yet to learn the right method of handling its subject population", in reference to Sparta's annual war against the Helots and use of the Krypteia. ... As women could also be landholders through inheriting portions of property, this resulted in "the formation of separate interest groups within Spartan societ...

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