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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-07-13 00:37:42+00:00.

Original Title: TIL it’s estimated that in later Classical Sparta, women were the sole owners of 35% of all land & property. Unlike women in Athens, if a Spartan woman became her father’s heiress because she had no living brothers, she wasn’t required to divorce her current spouse to marry her nearest paternal kin.