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    The Women of Sparta

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    Sparta was cut off from the rest of Greece by high mountains and wild country sides‚ there for Spartans developed their own ideas of society and government. A domineering society that focused upon its military strength‚ Sparta did not allow its citizens the lenient lifestyle of Athenians. The ideology of Sparta was oriented around the state. The individual lived (and died) for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state from their beginning to the age of sixty. Women’s lives were

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    evidence reveal about Spartan cultural life? There were many different aspects to the Spartan cultural life which ancient sources and evidence have provided insight and knowledge for our modern societies. These features include art‚ architecture‚ writing and literature‚ and Greek writer’s views of Sparta. The Spartan cultural life also gives us knowledge into other aspects of Spartan life and the society in which they lived. Architecture was one of the essential parts of the Spartan cultural life. The

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    Sparta Vs Athens Essay

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    Athenians and Spartan Differences Today‚ I would like to talk about a Spartans and Athenians. I will be talking about Athenians and Spartan’s right to participate‚ similar government structure between the two and how they both differed. “At Spartas peak around 500 BC the size of the city would have been some 20‚000-35‚000 freee residents” (2017‚ April 10). And by 432 BC in Athens and Attica there were 150‚000 Athenians around 50‚000 aliens and more than 100‚000 slaves (n.d.). Athens & Sparta’s right

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    work on farms and as servants of the Spartans. The Messenians became helots by the 7th century‚ when Sparta took full control of Messenia. The Spartans turned Sparta into a military state by 6th century B.C. to make sure they would not loose control of what they had succeeded in conquering. Training for the military began at birth when state officials decided whether a baby was fit to live and he would be left to die if they felt that he was not fit for Spartan military life. Between the ages of

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    based on their ways of living‚ their government styles‚ and their military. Athenians and the Spartans have different ways of living as they focus on different morals. At a small age Spartan boys are taken from their families and forced into the Spartan standing army. On the other hand‚ the Athenian boys are not mandated into the military of their country and are able to get a good education. Spartans are focused on their military more than their interactions with other countries around them. “Sparta

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    Gates of Fire

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    At Thermopylae‚ the allied Greek nations deployed a small force of between four and seven thousand Greek heavy infantry against the invading Persian army of two million. Leading the Greeks was a force of three hundred Spartans‚ chosen because they were all "sires" — men who had to have sons who could preserve their blood line‚ should they fall in battle. Thermopylae was the only way into Greece for the Persian army‚ and presented the perfect choke point — a narrow pass bordered by a sheer mountain

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    structure .The main goal of the Spartans was to have an elite state of soldiers. While the Athenians main objective was to have a society that was versatile‚ skilled and liberal. The Spartan culture was surrounded around warfare and military. Spartan children were trained from a very young age to be successful warriors. Boys were sent to a boot camp/boarding school (ague). The training in these boot camps helped the boys not to be weak‚ but instead to become warriors. The Spartan girls were given the same

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    Aristotle said regarding Spartan women “…nearly two-fifths of the whole country is in the hands of women…”4 and Plutarch said “…For he exercised the girls’ bodies with races and wrestling and discus and javelin throwing‚ so that the embryos formed in them would have a strong start in strong bodies and develop better…and would cope well and easily with childbirth.” The way that the women of Sparta are described paints a very different picture of women in Greece. Spartan women had many freedoms and

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    Mr Colfer

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    important were the helots to the Spartan social structure? (45 marks) The Helots were enslaved Greeks‚ captured by the Spartans‚ who performed many important duties in Sparta‚ including working the land to produce food and crafting items that the Spartans wouldn’t make themselves . According to the sources‚ the Helots were particularly important in the social structure of Sparta. Although they were useful and important‚ they were the lowest class in the Spartan society and were kept under constant

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    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 about it from Delphi‚ Which they called a rhetra.” Therefore with the evidence provided‚ it is quite obvious that Lycurgus had significant importance to not only Spartan Society but also the government and the military

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