What Are The Differences In The Life Of Ancient Athenian Women

The daily life in ancient Athens was kind of unfair especially for women and slaves. In Athens Women had their own separate lives from men and couldn’t leave the house without permission of the men in charge. Men had their responsibilities, like their jobs and duties, and laws which had to be followed by everyone. Children lived an okay & simple life until the age of six. But in Sparta it was different from Athens because it was fair for both genders. And in both city-states Slavery was the same, both cruel, shameful and unexcusable.

Men in Ancient Athens were different in Ancient Sparta. In Athens, boys were taught at home until the age of six by their mothers, and then they went to school. After high school they would attend military
In Athens girls would be taught at home until they were old enough to marry by her mother. Girls would marry in between the ages 14-18. Women would only stay at home to cook for their family, sew, clean, wash and organize the household and also raise their children. Women couldn´t get out of the house with no permission of the men in charge of the house, when they are really young the male in charge is her father, later when she is married it´s her husband in charge. In Sparta women had more freedom and lived a more normal life. They would also be taught at home by their mother´s until the age of six, then they would go to school and study “mousike” which consisted arts, music, poetry and dance. In their youth, they would also run around naked along with the boys and competed wrestling, gymnastics, foot and horse races, and also other required physical trials. Girls would also compete in gymnopaedia, a Spartan festival of naked youths. They could also learn how to become warriors, learn how to handle a weapon, learned skills and also how to kill, in a military school. They could also open a business and could get out of the house without any permission of anyone in
This was partly because the Greek people had no money to pay to pay the workers with, and also because they had no clocks to measure the time to work. And also it’s cheaper to force people to work for them than to pay them. Most slaves were born as free people, but were then sold by their parents to other people at a young age (Children), regularly because their parents were too poor to sustain their Children so they sold them. Some slaves were captured by kidnappers or as prisoners of war like the Persians, Egyptians or Scythians. How great part of the jobs were occupied by the slaves, about one third of the Greek population were salves. Slaves could be sold at any time to other people and had to obey their owners, if they refused to work, or they would starve or get harsh punishments. Slaves couldn’t marry nor have kids without the permission of their