What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Spartan Culture

Sparta had flaws in culture no doubt, but they also had some very powerful strengths. One being the loyalty to the state of Sparta. Once a Spartan always a Spartan, they weaned out the weak and built up the strong. This helped in more ways than one and made everyone of the state loyal to the state officials and people above them. With loyalty comes responsibility and respect, something that was earned and not given in Sparta. Being split into three major groups Sparta struggled to have respect for each and every group. They people above looked down on the ones below them simply because they were of a higher power. In today's world Sparta would have been compared to an enslaved country having the best of the best at the top, the middle-class workers, and lastly the slaves or dwealers on the bottom. To be at the top of Sparta you had to be recruited from the highest social class, the aristocratic spartiates. This made it difficult for change to ever happen in the state. Being raised and taught the same morals of the families before you made it instilled in the culture in which you would practice. This made it impossible for change and over time upset the people who were constantly neglected but had no way to climb the ladder of the social classes making it hard to achieve success. You see …show more content…
Females would enter schools with their “sisterhood” at ages six and seven and would be taught similar things as the males. They would go to school and work at objectives to produce a strong willing wife. They also would have to pass tests at 18 and if they did not they also became periodos. If she passed she would be assigned a husband and allowed to go home. Woman and Sparta were very different in Sparta compared to other Greek cities. Most of the time woman of the cities were controlled by their husbands, but in Sparta the women were free willed and had close to as many rights as the