athens and spartans

Blair Ault
Communications Applications Spartans v. Athens The Spartans and Athens had a really different life than each other. The Spartans treated their women equally to men. The Spartan women had almost the same right that Spartan men had. “Spartan women had the right to vote just like man had the right also.”(CITATION) Women were allowed to vote the same as the man were allowed to vote. They had more freedom then the Athen women. The Athens would treat their women unequally compare to man. “Athen women didn’t had the right to vote like man did”(CITATION0 The Athen people would not let their women vote because they thought they shouldn’t vote for no one. They think they wouldn’t take it seriously and that they can’t think. Another reason why the Spartan didn’t live the same as the Athens is because how they treated their child. “Either if their child was strong they would send him to fight for his life but if they were weak they would automatically kill them.” This shows us that they don’t have a heart like the Athens do. They could kill anything and they won feel bad for what they had done. The Athens would keep their child either weak or strong and try to make them live a better life than the Spartan kids are living. That’s why all the Spartan people were aggressive because they weren’t treated right and weren’t being taking care of the way they should of have. The Spartan had their own way to survive while the Athens did too. The Spartan were aggressive and the Athens were not. The Spartan had a reason to have a strong child because they wanted him to be able to survive for himself. “They would always look for trouble no matter what it was, they had to fight for it.” If they would not look for trouble, possibly they wouldn’t had to kill their weak child because they didn’t had nothing to worry about. They would of probably even have a bigger population than what they had. The athens wouldnt care if their child was weak or strong because they wouldnt look for trouble. They had more chance of being able to survive just like the spartan had the same chance of surviving." The athens would only let men work"(citation) They would let only men do the hard work while the rest of the family would stay at home not doing the hard work. The Spartan family would all do the hardwork because they were all strong and not weak. The athens would treat everybody the same either stronh or weak they would treat them well. One way they both are different is that they would usually trade different things. Spartans would trade for olive oil, meat, goat cheese and wheat. Even thoe the spartans trade, they did not rely on it. The athens would trade for poettry, bronze, and wine. The idea of the education for Spartans was to create a strong warrior. They were proud, fierce, and capable warriors. The athens would also feel proud because they rhought themselves the shining star of the greek city. " women were sent to school to be teached how to fight."(citation) The whole spartanians were all involve in fighting and being prepared for any battle. The athenian womens would be tought regular housewives skills and men would be tought everything else. They would rely on the stuff they would get from trading so that they could be able to survive. The spartan women would have more freedom then the athenian women. The athen women would have to marry their fathers choice. The spartan women would have the freedom to marry any men they wanted to. In conclusion, the spartan lived a way different life than the athens would live. The spartan would let their women have more freedom dan the athenian women had. They would trade goods and wont even rely on it. The athen would rely on their trade because they would use it so that they could be able to survive. Theey would take their education more seriously than the spartans. The spartans would just teach women how to read and write while the athenians would teach both genders some daily living things.