3) Essay:Greek Polis The greeks city state‚ and often had a single city with land it controlled surrounding it. I like to think of it like a modern state and how people hailing from each has their own identity‚ their own patron‚ politicians and sayings. Each polis was unique and vibrant and each had a different flavor of greek culture. Each having an army‚ assembly‚ patron deity and identity and a feeling of local identity almost city before country. Contrast is often a good way to compare two
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Athens vs. Sparta Many Greek city-states have different rules than other Greek city-states. For example‚ two main Greek city-states that differed a lot were Sparta and Athens. Both Greek city-states had different freedoms for certain people. The people in Sparta and Athens were treated differently because of their gender‚ social class‚ age‚ etc. For women‚ Sparta was the better Greek city-state because of the independence and the education. A woman in Sparta had more independence because they didn’t
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Sparta VS Athens Allies from their existence‚ Athens and Sparta had fought side by side for centuries. These two Greek city-states fought together in the Greco-Persian war‚ but when the Persians retreated‚ tension rose. Athens gained more power than they needed‚ plunging the two cities into nearly three decades of war. The outcome was devastating. Although Sparta won‚ they were extremely demoralized. Athens was bankrupt and exhausted‚ and neither city regained the military strength they once had
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Period 8&9 Argumentative Essay: Sparta vs. Athens Sparta taught its people for only practical reasons. All their education was directed toward prompt obedience to authority. I believe Sparta is the best place to live in the world. Sparta offers women more freedom. Some people think that the Spartan government is cruel. Sparta is feared by other city-states due to its strong military. “All their education was directed toward
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Athens vs. Sparta Athens and Sparta in contrast had many similarities and differences such as the view on women‚ politics‚ economy and military structure. Sparta and Athens each had similarities and differences regarding the status and view of women in society. Women in Sparta were judged on their physique and physical and athletic state. Women in Sparta had designated arenas in which they would exercise and compete in athletic tournaments‚ usually secluded from the men who were out training
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Athens vs Sparta Sparta is a strong wonderful place it is a lot better than you think. The reason is Sparta has a very strong Army and it could take down any other Greek city-state. They also have free rights for women unlike Athens. Sparta as you can tell so far is the better place between them and Sparta. Sparta tries to stay in content for the strongest Army‚ they have better rights for women‚ and they have a great lifestyle. Sparta had the strongest Army too. In fact
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values‚ Athenian were democratic.” States Mr. Duckworth in the passage‚ “Athens and Sparta.” People argue based on which place which would have been the better place to be in the past‚ most people choose Sparta; but a majority have chosen Athens‚ the better place. Both Athens and Sparta had their own inequalities to make them unique‚ and wanting people to choose there to live. Athens would have been a better place to live because the families there relied on each other and the men were chosen to be the
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Athens and Sparta were two Greek poleis that coexisted between 750-c. 500 B.C.E. (Duiker 119). Even though these two city-states were similar in a few ways‚ they were different in many more ways‚ so they didn’t particularly get along very well. Almost every aspect of their lives was different‚ from their government systems‚ to their views on men and women‚ and finally to their lasting effects on Greek history and culture. Despite their differences‚ they both influenced Greece and the Mediterranean
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The people of Athens and Sparta influenced others greatly throughout the region during their time in power. The right to participate in public life and make decisions affecting the community was a very important role for both societies. Who held that role was different for both communities. The Spartan men mainly consisted of warriors with their sole job to protect the Spartan state. The men were trained from an early age to be warriors‚ the job of a Spartan woman was to produce more Spartan
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cities of Athens and Sparta were both advanced for their time‚ but differed in their idea of appropriate women’s roles. While Spartan women were relatively important to the social and political spheres‚ women in Athens were considered nothing more than breeding machines to produce men for the society’s powerful army. Aside from the fact that both groups of women were married for the sole purpose of bearing children‚ there are hardly any similarities between the treatment of women in Sparta and Athens
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