Sparta and Athens
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” is just as worse as murdering baby.
In Sparta, every child need to go to military training at the age of seven and the military training can definitely be say as cruel and even life threatening. Living in Athens give you a much higher rate of survival than in Sparta, at the very least, you will not endure the pain and hunger that the Spartan children gets.
Athens cares more about education. Is there anyone in Sparta who bothered to write down their own history? No! Plutarch did and he isn’t even a Spartan. Spartans teach their child fighting and stealing while Athens teaches their child reading and writing. Every invention we have today comes from ideas!
After all, Athens is definitely better than Sparta for children, since the chance of dying when the baby was considered “weak” in Sparta and the essential military training at the age of 7.
Although boys were treated harshly in Sparta, women in Sparta are treated almost equally to men. They married at the age of 18. Even though they have no say in who they want to marry, they definitely made it up in everything else. In education, in ownership and they were free to take care of almost everything outside of the army.
The Spartans believed that strong mothers are more likely to produce strong babies so physical educations are as important for boys as they are for girls and there were regular competitions for running, wrestling, discus and javelin. Spartan daughters expect to inherit half what a son would
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” is just as worse as murdering baby.
In Sparta, every child need to go to military training at the age of seven and the military training can definitely be say as cruel and even life threatening. Living in Athens give you a much higher rate of survival than in Sparta, at the very least, you will not endure the pain and hunger that the Spartan children gets.
Athens cares more about education. Is there anyone in Sparta who bothered to write down their own history? No! Plutarch did and he isn’t even a Spartan. Spartans teach their child fighting and stealing while Athens teaches their child reading and writing. Every invention we have today comes from ideas!
After all, Athens is definitely better than Sparta for children, since the chance of dying when the baby was considered “weak” in Sparta and the essential military training at the age of 7.
Although boys were treated harshly in Sparta, women in Sparta are treated almost equally to men. They married at the age of 18. Even though they have no say in who they want to marry, they definitely made it up in everything else. In education, in ownership and they were free to take care of almost everything outside of the army.
The Spartans believed that strong mothers are more likely to produce strong babies so physical educations are as important for boys as they are for girls and there were regular competitions for running, wrestling, discus and javelin. Spartan daughters expect to inherit half what a son would