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 Ancient Wars: Sparta Ancient Wars: Sparta () is a 2007 real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows, developed by World Forge, published by Playlogic, and distributed by Eidos. The game features three separate campaigns set in different ancient cultures; the Spartans, the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Persians. It received mixed to negative reviews, with critics finding the gameplay unoriginal, and the overall game as bringing nothing new to the genre. Originally intended as the first game in a franchise to bear the "Ancient Wars" name, no further titles were made, although a spiritual successor with the same game engine