1. Economic Structure and Organisation of Spartan Society
... the economic structure of the Spartan state. Jones correctly states that due to the inequality generated, "Some Spartans doubtless had large families, and their sons, when divided the inheritance, were too poor to maintain their contributions to the pheiditia (messes) and became Inferiors. Provident Spartiates probably restricted themselves to one son, who inherited the undivided estate" (1967, 136), which aids in explaining the ... , mainly accentuated existing trends, making Spartans still more unwilling to divide their inheritance between several sons", that would be either through re...
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