revolved learning and knowledge. When Spartan boys were being trained for an army‚ Athenian boys were being trained for life. Sparta was a city-state based on strict military ruling. Lives of Spartans revolved around military. The education given was meant to create Spartans into soldiers. Not only were the Spartans raised to be military-minded‚ but they were also expected to be a disciplined marching army. The strict rules of the government made it so that every Spartan was to be physically fit. Those
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was Sparta (Peloponnesian Leagues) vs. Athens. Spartans’ leader was Brasidas. Athens was lucky and got Pericles as a political leader as well as a military leader up until he died in 429 BC. Anyway‚ Athens was very good with the sea and ships and attacking that way. While on the other hand‚ the Spartans mainly covered the land. Slide 3: After the Persian War‚ because everything was destroyed and out of whack because of the Persian War‚ the Spartans and Athens decided that for thirty years there
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greater control over their property and over marriage decisions. But‚ even these women could not vote or hold public office. The lives of most of these women were centered around their households. In the Greek city-state of Athens from about 500 to 300 B.C.‚ women raised children and managed the spinning‚ weaving‚ and cooking in the household (Mahdavi‚ 2012). Wealthy women supervised slaves in these tasks‚ but they also did some of the work themselves. Respectable Athenian women seldom left their
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men and women were forced to train from early on. Since the men comprised the army they received the most difficult and brutal training imaginable. The Spartan way of life tells us that living in ancient Greece meant living in a hostile region. City-states were in relatively close proximity to one another and therefore clashed often. The Spartans reflect for us the extreme necessity of a standing army. From their society we know that Greece was a very conflict-ridden part of the world. Since the
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History 102 Xenophon Xenophon‚ the author of the document‚ The Constitution of the Lacedaemonians‚ was born in 434 BC and became a middle-class Athenian but was later exiled to Spartan land (pg. 81). This document was written in order to keep record of the way life was lived back in Sparta where he fulfilled his exile. The law maker‚ Lycurgus‚ was a very creative and intuitive man but additionally he was fair and just. Lycurgus made laws that would honestly benefit everyone in Sparta to the fullest
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were treated differently to spartiate men‚ they were not allowed to do majority if things that the Spartan men did‚ such as hunting‚ working‚ and most leisure activities such as watching cockfighting or boar fighting. Woman were to stay at home and do home duties such as cooking‚ cleaning and ultimately look after the children. Women were expected to raise children and to make sure they learn the Spartan way of life. woman were able to compete in athletics‚ mostly running events‚ they also enjoyed dancing
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magistrates. The Gerousia‚ was an elite elder council of 30 men and was the Spartan equivalent of the senate. The Gerousia was made up of the wealthier and more conservative men. When one of the 30 seats became available in the Gerousia‚ it was the assembly who chose the man to fill the Gerousia vacancy. The Ephors were elected each year for one‚ one-year term by the members of the assembly. The assembly consisted of all male Spartan citizens. Becoming an Ephor was the only way to for non-aristocratic citizens
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governments‚ education systems‚ people’s rights and childcare. The Spartans had a very different view on how their city should be run compared to the Athenians‚ their education systems taught the children of their cities completely different things‚ the Spartans being much more military-based and the Athenians being focused on the arts. The people of the two cities were entitled to very different rights too‚ for both men and women. The Spartan government as an oligarchy‚ which is a government “ruled by
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conflict. When looking for a single cause of the peloponnesian war none can be found. Over time many events contributed to the eventual war between Sparta and Athens. I believe the peloponnesian war evolved because of Athenian support for Spartan enemies‚ Spartan alarm at a rise in Athenian power‚ and the drastic differences between the two cultures. In 435 B.C.‚ Corcyra‚ a Corinthian colony declared itself independent of Corinth. Corinth responded by sending a fleet to reduce the rebelling
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of aristocracy. In fact‚ Sparta’s asset was its powerful military‚ and it is the protector of Greece. Spartans oppressed the Messenian slaves after their revolt against the Spartans. In order to appease the non- nobles‚ who demanded equal rights‚ as they assisted the Spartans in the war‚ the aristocrats later‚ reformed the state system to “Lycurgan regimen.” According to this reform‚ all Spartans were given equal rights‚ and the state was ruled by two kings with the assistance from the nobles. Taking
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