... as peasant women involved. Was Sparta a gyneocracy like Aristotle says? Aristotle claimed that Sparta ultimately failed (but then so did Athens) because Sparta did not control its independent women; "women love wealth and so society loves wealth and so men are ruled by women." Pointing to the reason Sparta lost to the Thebians, Aristotle claimed it ... poetry. Sappho's poems are primarily love poems addressed to other women, but whether this was reflective of the times when homosexuality and homoeroticism were prevalent in ancient Greece is still being debated. Early Christian writers de...

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