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    Women in Athens & Sparta

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    Women in Ancient Sparta & Athens By: Tony Knuth 12/9/09 Historians have spent a long time attempting to establish what exactly life was like for women in ancient Greece. Like all studies of ancient Greece‚ they focus primarily on the two most powerful city-states in the Hellenic world‚ Athens and Sparta. Since the majority of the primary documents deal with these two cities‚ historians are only able to decipher a fragmentary view of what life was actually like for the entirety of society

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    Athens vs. Sparta

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    Athens vs. Sparta Reflection Essay As all civilizations do‚ Athens and Sparta have provided many things for the modern world. And as everything else‚ both have their strengths and weaknesses. Athens focused more on education and the arts while Sparta revolved around military strength and battle. Because Sparta had such a massively influential military‚ we use tactics and strategies derived from them even today. They invented the Phalanx; a military formation of standing closely packed and

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    Sparta Research Paper

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    Sparta Sparta was a city-sate in ancient Greece. It was located in Laconia‚ the south-eastern Peloponnese. It was built on the Eurotas River‚ which was the main river of Laconia; this gave them a fresh source of water. Sparta is known for its military dominance. What gave it this reputation was defeating its rival city state Athens in the Peloponnesian War. Sparta had very brutal training of their warriors‚ in fact‚ most the culture was based around its military and the training of its warriors

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    Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta were the two largest Greek city-states of the Ancient world. They were the biggest of rivals‚ two towering cities at their peak‚ the most influential cultural‚ military‚ and trade powers of western civilization in the first millennium B.C. They are sharply contrasting yet strikingly similar‚ setting the stage for the Peloponnesian War. Their differences were the effect of geographical isolation but they began with the same base of ideas on which to build.

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    Introduction Throughout Ancient Greek history various forms of government have ruled the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta. These have included aristocracy‚ oligarchy‚ tyranny‚ monarchy‚ and democracy. An oligarchy is ruled by the few‚ which could also be as a small group of the aristocracy. Monarchy is ruled by a hereditary single sovereign‚ while tyranny by a single leader who took power by force. Democracy is the rule of the people. This essay will show the changes of government between the

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    Athens vs Sparta

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    goddess Athena. Sparta is said to have been founded by Lacedaemon the son of Zeus and Taygete who married Sparta the daughter of Eurotas. Sparta was a city that was on the banks of the River Eurotas in ancient Greece. In the next few paragraph I will compare and contrast a few things between Athens and Sparta. First will be the Government of the two‚ next will be the religion among both and last will be the lives of the citizens of Athens and Sparta. The Governments of Athens and Sparta were different

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    Athens vs. Sparta

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    what it would be like to live in one of the two strongest empires 2‚500 years ago? Athens and Sparta were the most powerful empire and city-states in Greece 2‚500 years ago. They both shared many of their beliefs and heroes‚ but they were very different when it came to their government. Athens had a democracy and trade while Sparta was a military state and its focus was training the people for war. Sparta was a better place because the women had more freedom‚ they were prized for reproduction‚ and

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    Lycurgus was an important figure throughout Sparta as he was responsible for setting up a large amount of the Spartan’s social and political institutions. In source A Herodotus shows just how effective Lycurgus was “Later he reorganised the army…by these changes Spartan Government was put upon a sound basis.” He was responsible for introducing laws and advice or prophecies received from a god through the medium ship of a priest or priestess. As Plutarch‚ on Sparta explains: “Lycurgus . . . brought an oracle

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    Athens vs. Sparta

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    Athens Vs. Sparta Throughout the ancient world there were two dominating empires. (S) The Athenian City (polis) and the Spartan empire. These two cities were both powerful and famous but significantly different. However‚ the city of Athens was by far a much more influential and powerful city-state in comparison to Sparta. Although both the city-states had their own strengths such as their government‚ social structure and their military tactics‚ Athens was a pivotal city that still to this day effects

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    The Real Housewives of Sparta The Roles of Spartan Women by: Jasveen Bathh Teacher: Ms.Neale Ancient History ISU Essay The Ancient Greek era was about the birth of democracy‚ their magical myths‚ their many gods and the wonderful people that came with it! Men were always seemed as the dominant gender and how they were the decision makers and thats exactly how Ancient Greece was about except for one particularly city-state Sparta. In Sparta women were not looked

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