Sparta

a book on the roles of women in Sparta. The book revolves the daily lives of Spartan women and goes in depth about the elite and lower classes. The women of Sparta are commonly believed to be unimportant and to have an insignificant role in society. Most primary sources were not from Sparta itself and were usually written by other people such as Plutarch and Xenophon. Pomeroy work on ancient Greek history has led her to try and better understand the women of Sparta. Despite the fact that little…

The Spartan army was much stronger comparing to Athens army. By 500 BC, Sparta was recognized by other Greeks as the most powerful city-state. The Spartan phalanx is an unstoppable military force, almost like a human tank a wall of Spartan soldiers. Considering the fact that almost all of the other Greeks thought that Sparta was the most powerful city-state, shows that the Spartan army must've been incredibly stronger to gain so much power and it being known by other Greeks. The Spartan phalanx…

consists of to be thought as an ideal Polis. Sparta and Athens, two Greek city-states in their own, remembered by the legacy each left behind, both embody their own Polis. Sharing some similarities, but more so differing in the unclear definition of a Polis.…

Sparta’s political prowess to the Greeks. (Unsure about this) o “Sparta was recognized as the leader of Greece at the end of the Peleoponnesian War” (Proietti 1987, x). o Thesis: It was the combination of individual humility and national pride that allowed Sparta to gain a strong military presence in the Mediterranean. Body Paragraph #1 (Document): o “…obedience to the magistrates and the laws is found in the highest degree in Sparta” (X.Lac.chapter8.section#3). This quote demonstrates the…

city-states had different forms of government. The city-state of Sparta had an authoritarian government in which it enforced military participation for all males and only the elite class could gain power in the government. Athens on the other hand had a democratic government that allowed everyone to be able to participate in its government despite class standing and did not put their focus on defending the city. The totalitarian government that Sparta had caused life for the people living there…

stronger in Athens. First of all, in Athens it’s freer than other city-states because it was a democracy. The article Athens and Sparta by Mr. Duckworth states, “ Athens is a democracy which means ruled by the people.” if people can choose their rules it is pretty free. Another thing is anyone could be picked to rule if they were a citizen of Athens unlike Sparta were the text says,”Sparta’s system of government was very exclusive and open to only wealthy people and citizens of highest…

In this paper I will discuss the way in which people living in the two greatest cities of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, obtained the right to participate in public life and make decisions affecting their communities, who held public office in those days, what rules governed the selection of public office holders, how the two city-states were similar in their governmental structures, and how they differed. People in Athens participated in public life through a process of decision making for…

cities was like? A student can infer from their history textbook that education in ancient Greek was very male oriented. As education has its strengths and weaknesses education in Greece was very difficult. In Sparta they had some strengths and many weaknesses in their education. In Sparta they girls did not go to school instead they stayed at home but the boys went to a school called the Agoge. At age of eight years boys are sent to the agoge and they stay their until the age of twenty one.…

Athens was the “eye” of Greece based on it being a rich artistic hub and highly democratic (Brody et al., 2009). It was by far the main city-state. City-states were basically geographically-based political units. Other city states at the time included Sparta, Thessalonica, Corinth and Thebes to name just but a few. Each city-state looked for a means of accumulating wealth and power in a bid to rise over the rest. Athens succeeded the most in this particularly after its dominance during the…

War I believe Athens is more to blame for starting the war than Sparta. Athens was to blame for the war for their disregard of Sparta’s request, to ease restrictions on city states allied with Sparta, for disturbing the allies of Sparta, Corinth, and Megara, and finally for not listening to the ultimatum given by Sparta…