Women in ancient Sparta their wealth. He attributed the state's precipitous fall during his lifetime, from being the master of Greece to a second-rate power in less than 50 years, to the fact that Sparta had become a gynocracy whose women were intemperate and loved luxury. All Spartan women, not just the richest, would have taken advantage of helot labour to perform the domestic tasks that elsewhere in Greece would have fallen to free women. Activities such as weaving which were considered women's work elsewhere in Greece were not considered fit for free women in Sparta. Therefore, women were more preoccupied with governance, agriculture,
Ancient Wars: Sparta working on future "Ancient Wars" games; "when we release the next title in the "Ancient Wars" series, I am very much looking forward to more aggressive PR based on the success of "Sparta"." The game received "mixed or average reviews," with an aggregate score of 59 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on twenty-one reviews. Eurogamer's Rob Fahey scored it 4 out of 10, writing "it fails to deliver an experience which is up to the standards of previous, incredibly similar games." He felt all three campaigns played similarly, and combat involved no strategy; "instead of the kind of solid,