1. Economic Structure and Organisation of Spartan Society
... and large Persian grants. These Persian grants also generated "the suspicion that he (Pausanias-a Spartan king) was intriguing with the Persian king alienated the sympathies of those under his command" (www.fordham.edu) including other Greek states, and proved harmful to Sparta's foreign relations. Jeffery (1976, 122) on the other hand states that "Because they would not or could not adapt ... by a statement that "Spartan government was an odd affair, but its overwhelming characteristic was stability. The Spartans, in fact, had the most stable government in the history of ancient Greece...
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