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This study aims to identify the various ways that enabled Sparta, after its defeat at Leuctra, to maintain social cohesion and avoid internal conflicts and challenges to its political system. I argue that the cryptie was founded as a monitoring body to cope with potential plots that could have been instigated by those who had lost their political rights or wealth, or even by those belonging to the lower social strata. With regard to the neodamodeis waiting to acquire land and freedom, they are placed within the perioikis of the cities, demographically and militarily strengthening them. Many Spartans who had lost their land and political rights and were in a situation of poverty were absorbed into the oikos of a rich Spartan citizen ( homoio), while those who were in an even worse situation, having no other means of survival or protection, were driven to a state of dependency similar to the status of helots.