... 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. Yet Roebuck (1966, 201) argues that ... ) though argues that "Even before the Law of Epitadeus, the infrastructure was flawed. The regime of property and inheritance, like the political system was a compromise"...

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