Aristotle attributes this city's decline to the fact that it allowed women to own property.
This city's idealization by historians was evaluated in a FranÃ§ois Ollier book about [this city's] "Mirage." This city dealt with a manpower shortage by allowing mothakes and perioikoi to join its army. Aristotle attributes this city's decline to the fact that it allowed women to own property. This city was defeated in one battle by an enemy that created a fifty-man deep left flank, a use of the oblique order by its foe (*) Epaminondas. This city was governed by a council of twenty-eight elders called the gerousia and was ruled by two kings from the Agiad and Eurypontid dynasties. This city used a secret police called the krypteia to suppress its serf class, the helots. For 10 points, name this city in Laconia given laws by Lycurgus, a frequent rival of Athens.
This city's idealization by historians was evaluated in a FranÃ§ois Ollier book about [this city's] "Mirage.
Sparta [or Lacedaemon] 