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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3031529" data-attributes="member: 307">Not even by the standards of the day was Sparta a democracy. No one was elected. The ruling elders controlled everything. The homioi had no voice, and they only represented a iny fraction of the populace to begin with.certainly there were several reasons for the war, but the conflict of ideology was a major sticking point. Sparta had limited economic interests, the need of the homioi were taken care of by the helotes for the most part. Spartas allies were economic rivals of Athens, which dragged them into the war, but Sparta's primary motivation was protecting their insular and conservative culture, by exporting it to the other greek city strates.Sparta's social system was dying before the war, and that circumstance was a big part of what caused the war to begin with. Sparta could not exist in the long haul with an economic rival like Athens outperforming it so dramaticallyAll it really does is make the filmmakers look uneducated.</blockquote>