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What were the differences between Athens and Sparta?

Athens woman had to stay home and tent to the housework and chores. Spartan girls and woman were trained to be tough so they would have tough babies. The spartan women went to school and Sparta believed in sports instead of academics. Athenian women had to stay home however Athens was very enhanced in learning and educating their men.


What are the good things about ancient Sparta?

In Sparta women where some sense freer than the Athens. the women had many rights they could participate in sports in fact they needed to be healthy so much that they would leave the weaker newborns to die.


What was life for Spartan women and for Athenian women?

Some women owned land in Sparta and ran their household when their husbands are gone. In Athens girls got almost no education and only a few girls learned how to read and write otherwise they were like Sparta but kept at home in virtual purdah.


How were Athens and Sparta city states different?

Sparta had a conquered territory which was far greater than that or other Greek cities, including Athens, except when the latter briefly got itself an empire. Sparta had a limited democracy, where the citizens voted on motions placed before them by the magistrates. Athens had a fifty-year era of direct democracy where the citizens voted and the magistrates implemented. However this then reverted to the limited democracy maintained by the Spartans and others. Spartan women had considerable freedoms. In Athens women were kept in virtual purdah, running the household and raising children. Sparta was conservative in its approach to other city-states, avoiding conflict as much as it could, but exercising its power when forced to. Athenians were adventurous, taking advantage of any opportunity which presented to extend its influence and power.


What are the differences and similarities of women in Sparta and women in Anthens?

Sparta women lived freely while athen women couldn't even leave the house.