Women in Ancient Sparta & Athens By: Tony Knuth 12/9/09 Historians have spent a long time attempting to establish what exactly life was like for women in ancient Greece. Like all studies of ancient Greece‚ they focus primarily on the two most powerful city-states in the Hellenic world‚ Athens and Sparta. Since the majority of the primary documents deal with these two cities‚ historians are only able to decipher a fragmentary view of what life was actually like for the entirety of society
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The role of women in Ancient Greece all depended on the city where one lived. In Sparta‚ women were more valued and respected by men‚ so the men were willing to give them more rights and opportunities to make their own decisions. In Athens‚ men had a more traditional view on women and believed that they shouldn’t belong in society; so therefore‚ men primarily monitored the women actions. Sparta lies in the Peloponnesus‚ in the south. The Spartans set up a brutal and strict system of control. Assemblies
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Short Assignment #2 (10%) Women in Athens & Sparta Considered two of the most notorious cities in Greek history‚ it is actually one of the few things Athens and Sparta share in common. The two cities took two separate paths towards power. Athens focusing on its politics while Sparta focused on military. These individual ways of life impacted both cities‚ creating large differences between the two societies‚ including how women were treated. Written in the article “Women in Ancient Greece.” by James
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Was Sparta a better place than Athens? Spartans is known for its military training while Athens lives in world of luxury. Each state has its own good or bad and you can’t say something is better at everything than another one. First of all‚ children are mistreated in Sparta like going to military training at the age of seven and killing “weak” babies. Who said they didn’t have the potential to become the next Plato. In order to have a pure race Spartans started to kill the babies who look “weak”
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Athens and Sparta In Ancient Greece‚ two competitive cities formed with similar beliefs but completely different lifestyles. Although‚ both Athens and Sparta shared similar religious views and permitted slavery‚ their social standards were different. Athens valued education tremendously‚ giving men a full schooling while Sparta didn’t prioritize education since they valued their military training more. Sparta held a higher social rank of women than Athens since women were free citizens
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Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta had many similarities and differences. They were both city-states in Greece‚ although they had very different characteristics. Athens and Sparta had different forms of government‚ economies‚ and interests. Athens was a lot more laid back and about the individual. They had artists and writers where Sparta had soldiers. Sparta was all about what was good for Sparta. Athens had one of the first Democracies. This was huge because before Democracy their
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Greece ‚the two major states were Athens and Sparta .They were very different in many aspects .However‚ at the same time ‚the two shared a lot of characteristics in common .Most of there differences and similaries were based on government ‚militarist focuses‚jugdement and view of women. Athens and Sparta were similar when it came to their social structures. Women’s rights and responsibilities were one of the few areas in which they were alike. In Athens‚ women had many responsibilities at home
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Comparison of men and women in Athens & Sparta When comparing power levels and women’s rights‚ Sparta was a leader in its time. Athens and Sparta‚ though both Greek city-states were different in the way they operated. More specifically‚ Sparta was different in the way that they treated their women. Athenian woman were treated quite appallingly compared to the standards of today’s women. The stem of this difference seems to lie in how these two city-states were governed. Sparta‚ known for its’
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children (Women‚ 2016). The life of a woman was basically childhood‚ marriage‚ family‚ and death. Women never became artists or scholars. Men typically lived until the age of 45‚ and women to 36. Men were often 20 years older than their wife‚ therefore many women survived their husband and remarried. In this case‚ her new husband would gain her inheritance. The only crucial public role of women was to give birth to young citizens‚ more importantly males to be citizens and females to reproduce further
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cities of Athens and Sparta were both advanced for their time‚ but differed in their idea of appropriate women’s roles. While Spartan women were relatively important to the social and political spheres‚ women in Athens were considered nothing more than breeding machines to produce men for the society’s powerful army. Aside from the fact that both groups of women were married for the sole purpose of bearing children‚ there are hardly any similarities between the treatment of women in Sparta and Athens
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