1. Economic Structure and Organisation of Spartan Society
Mitchell (1964, 306) confirms this by stating "So long as Sparta had little or nothing to do with the outside world, so long could it exist in the primitive state of economy". ... As women could also be landholders through inheriting portions of property, this resulted in "the formation of separate interest groups within Spartan society firmly entrenched by the patterns of marriage which arose out of the need to cope with inheritance" (Powell, 1988, 113). ... Regardless, the fact that by a certain time "two fifths of the land was owned by women" (Jones, 1967, 136) in Sparta, demonstrates the e...
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