:') Yeah, "marriage by capture" is the translation of the term they used. Spartan society was referred to as being ruled by women even in its heyday, but it wasn't. Spartan society grew from some kind of commonplace Greek village into a fetishistic and quite sick police state, which not only treated its children (and citizens in general) quite brutally, it held neighboring peoples in bondage. Eventually the last king of Sparta (who took power through fraud and intrigue) led what was left of an already declining fascism into a series of unnecessary wars against Thebes, which proceeded to wipe the land clean of Spartans. Good riddance. The last (ex-)king wound up serving as a mercenary in Egypt, despite his advanced age, in an effort to raise money to support himself, his troops, and ultimately to restore Sparta. He failed.
