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Athenian Women Physical Training
980 wordsIf you were a woman how would you rather be treated? If you are the relaxed, dependent type, perhaps you would find the life of the typical Athenian woman agreeable. Athenian women spent most of their lives indoors doing mostly domestic activities. But if you are an independent type of lady, who enjoys exercise, not overly modest, and do not mind sharing your bed with more than one man, then you would probably enjoy the life of a Spartan woman. The basic similarity between the lives of the women...
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Women In Ancient Greece Athens And Sparta
1,324 wordsMost people think of ancient Athens as the city of freedom and democracy, while they think of Sparta as a highly restricted society. The schools teach us that modern democracies are modeled on Athens, while military dictatorships are modeled on Sparta. However, history shows us that women had much more liberty in Sparta than in Athens. In fact, the democracy of Athens was available only to free men who were citizens of Athens. Moreover, to claim citizenship, an Athenian had to prove that both hi...
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Women In Ancient Greece Athens And Sparta
1,329 words... tan women act as mothers, daughters, wives and queens, and they participate in the political and social arenas. A Spartan woman named Gorgo is mentioned several times in Herodotus work as a daughter, wife and queen. Gorgo was the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas. She is first mentioned in 5. 48: for Cleomenes reign was a brief one, and he died without a son to succeed him, leaving only a daughter whose name was Gorgo. Often, Herodotus does not name the women, but he does so name Go...
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Social And Economic Read And Write
859 wordsMost ancient Greek women were under control of men from the moment of their birth to the moment of their death, weather it be their father or husbands. This may be quite true about Athenian or any other women from different city-states, but Spartan women had a lot more freedom and when compared are found out to be a lot more different then the traditional image of which ancient Greek women are thought to of been treated. Firstly Spartan women had many more rights then other women of different ci...
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Roman Empire Indo European
1,245 words... of reason and love (communication and expression with the male race). She had no formal education (female children were largely taught to read and write informally, in their homes and usually by their mothers or by slaves who acted as tutors) and, therefore, was considered inadequate for the training of new generations; this fell into the hands of the men. Greek women were married as young as 14 or 15 to a man as arranged by her family. He may be as old as 30 and could very well be dead by a...
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Role In Society Boys And Girls
1,876 wordsSpartan Women Introduction Issues that concerned women have been present in history since ancient time. It was not just a case: mankind has always been preoccupied with the problem of family, gender roles, moral choice, good and evil; and love, closely related to moral and religion has been looked upon as possible to provide some answers for the questions. Spartan women are often spoken in the context of social phenomenon. No doubts that women enjoyed some evident benefits. For example, when a h...
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Spartan Women Spartan Society
1,881 words... to be good in wrestling, running, hurling the javelin and discus throwing, foot races, and staged battles. All these skills could be extremely useful for future soldiers. Although the men were mainly involved in wars, the Spartan women had to defend themselves if the men were outside the city and some danger occurred. Yet, Plato says that Spartan women, for all their gymnastic training, had no military role whatever, and even in a crisis were incapable of handling weapons (Powell 249) The fa...
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Spartan Society Spartan Women
1,079 wordsSpartan society was structured around the army, always ready to fight or defend if the need arose. Spartan males were the only ones permitted to serve in the army though, and due to the males devotion to warfare the lives of everyone in the polis of Sparta were also greatly affected. This militaristic nature of the Spartans had an impact on the female members of the polis, the helots and the perioeci. The government was also impacted. Military training for a Spartan male began when he was still ...
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2000 From The World Wide Ancient Greek
1,205 wordsThe Women of Ancient Greek Times In Ancient Greek times around 4 BC, women were typically subordinated. An example of this treatment can be seen in the lives of women living in Athens. In contrast, a neighboring area, Sparta, illustrated a different way of life for their women. Sparta was located in the south-central portion of the Peloponnesian and was a more isolated culture. It was dependent upon agriculture while Athens was cosmopolitan and dependent on manufacture and trade. With the separa...
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