In Sparta the women were free and were allowed to do whatever they wanted. The requirements that the women needed to have though is that they had to be fit and healthy in order to have healthy and strong babies. The Spartan women had grown up the same ways as the boys just without going to the agoge. The women were fed the same food and in the same portion as the boys. The spartans taught the women how to to sing and dance, wrestle, to throw the javelin and discus.…
Women in Athens had no political rights, they were treated as property by their fathers and husbands and were expected to stay home and raise children. Spartans believed that strong women were needed to bear strong sons, women were also trained in gymnastics as well as the men. Because men were so frequently gone, women were allowed to own property and often ran farms and shops. In Athens, women were treated like property and had to live up to this expectation to be a perfect housewife. Spartan women were allowed to own property unlike the women in Athens.…
Plato’s Republic, Aristophanes’ The Assemblywomen, and Blundell’s chapter on Sparta women citizen, depicted many ideas of women’s value and participation in their societies. Blundell shows that the more radical lines of Spartan women ensured that female domestic power was accepted and maybe encouraged. In Plato’s and Aristophanes’ works can reflect a comparison to Blundell’s chapter on Sparta. Spartan women were raised in an all-female environment as their father or husbands were training for or at war most of the time. They saw little of their brothers once the barracks had claimed them at the age of seven.…
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of Spartan and Athenian women in relation to their customs and principles. The evidence drawn from primary sources, such as those of Historians Herodotus and Plutarch, provide insight in Ancient Greek societies’ expectation on proper female behavior. These sources also describe the different character traits and status between Spartan women and Athenian women, as well as, similarities in political and property restrictions.…
Women became amongst the richest members of society, as their men were killed in the many wars, and eventually controlled 2/5th of Spartan land. Spartan women could also move around with reasonable…
By 600 BCE Sparta had conquered her neighbors in the southern half of the Peloponnese. The vanquished people, called Helots, were required to do all of the agricultural work on land owned by the victors, making Sparta self-sufficient in food and ruler of a slave population seven or eight times as large. Not needing to import anything allowed Sparta to isolate herself from the culture of the rest of the world; fearing revolt by such a large number of slaves forced the country to become an armed camp: thus was determined the character of one of the oddest societies in the ancient world. At the age of seven Spartan boys left home to be raised by the state in barracks.…
The first three chapters focuses on motherhood, which was an important theme in Sparta. The men were made to be warriors and the women were made to be mothers. Education was important in shaping a girls future, which is discussed in the first chapter. Then becoming a wife and the roles of a mother shows why the Spartans revere women. In chapter four and five, Pomeroy discusses the elite and lower class women of Sparta.…
Women had few rights; they were known mostly as house wives since they were uneducated and had no true opinions. On the flip side, Sparta had educated women with equality of powers. The girls were allowed to inherit land and hunt just the same as men were able to. In addition, Sparta produced very strong warriors, for their men were sent…
Despite the fact that some hypothesize that Athenian women would be granted more rights than the strict Spartans, it is actually that Spartan women owned more freedom as a whole. In all three components, Spartan women were given more freedom than Athenians. For instance, Athenian women were not allowed to own property while Spartan women were handed down the household’s wealth and given proprietary rights. These differences all occurred under the great influence of the major cultural differences, even though both Athens and Sparta are part of Greece. Spartans’ lifestyle is mainly directed in training men for fighting and therefore the women are granted freedom and proprietary rights as the society as a whole needed people to take care of the houses’ wealth and property while the men would be gone in strict military education.…
Although Spartan and Athenian militaries were similar in some ways they still had differences. The education, lifestyle and the militaries were similar but different. Though both the Spartan and Athenian militaries were crucial in the Persian war, their militaries developed along different lines, Spartan’s military was ultimately more successful than Athens military. Spartans start their training at a very young age.…
The difference, is that Spartan women were able to do other things than solely domestic work. They were good at dancing, reading, singing, riding, running, wrestling and javelin throwing. On the other hand, Spartan women were breeding machines and the purpose was to produce male soldiers that the state needed to defend itself. A mother’s love, therefore, became replaced with a mother’s pride in her son’s bravery in battle and disgust with any sign of…
The social standing of the Hetaerae was at best at the level of prostitutes, and the level of power they achieved was only slightly significant (Cantarella & Lefkowitz, 1987, pp. 49-50). Status of Spartan Women in Society Life in Sparta was oriented around the state. The individual lived and died for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state from their beginning to the age of sixty.…
Athenian woman were treated awfully bad compared to the values of today’s women. Sparta women wore short dresses and were allowed to leave the house whenever they wanted to. Overall, Spartan women had more freedom and rights and lived a much better life then the women from Athens. If we look at the equality and women rights, the life of men and women in Athens and Sparta was quite different.…
Two cultures with very opposing views regarding the roles and portrayal of women are the Etruscans and the Greeks, specifically the Athenians. It is difficult to discern what is true about the Etruscans, because many of the ancient sources about them are from the Greeks, who had a very biased view of Etruscan life. However, we can use this apparent bias to show how the Greeks thought women should behave.…
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome can be compared in many ways, such as their geography, the position of women in society and government. Geography helped influence the development of civilizations by allowing permanent settlements, irrigation for crops, and a constant water supply. This led to the increase in human population, which led to cities which resulted in civilizations. The women of ancient civilizations had few rights and men had power over them. They were considered inferior and many people valued women as a baby producer and taking care of the house and children.…