Similarities Between Spartan Women And Athenian Women

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In this document, I’m going to write about women in Sparta and Athens. I realized, they are similar as well as different in several ways. Also, I’m going to study Plutarch’s account of Spartan women in which he supports or doesn’t support the textbook’s presentation; in addition, I’m going to present my opinion of Plutarch’s ideas. And I’m going to talk about any similarities between women then and today.
Spartan women and Athenian women had many differences. While Spartan women were able to do multiple activities outside in and out of their homes, Athenian women were supposed to stay at home and limit their talent to their household. Athenian women in wealthier citizen families only went out of their house for some religious festivals or plays. …show more content…

On the other hand, Women in Sparta were forbidden from wearing jewelry or ornate clothes, but Athenian women didn’t have this restriction. When in fact, women from Sparta were not physically limited or secluded; Athenian citizen women lived a secluded life where they could only see men that were relatives and tradesmen. Indeed, there was a big different when it comes to pregnancy. Spartan women were supposed to exercise actively because they believed that their hard training stimulated the delivery of healthy children which is true. Nonetheless, Athenian women were guided by the thought that childbirth could be dangerous; as a result, they used to make sacrifices or to visit temples to ask for help from the gods, yet Athenians women didn’t exercise as much to have an easier delivery of their child. By way of contrast, women from Sparta carried military values along with a Spartan system which served to instill the civic qualities of commitment to the state. They were seen much more than simpler care-givers whereas Athenians women were seen as inferior to man. They were portrayed as passive and fragile, and not as able to achieve physical or mental work. Moreover, the Spartan women were expected to train hard, and they …show more content…

Because men spent much of their live in military service, Spartan women in citizen families owned lands and ran the estates. In a like manner, women from Athens were in charge of the household and their families’ belongings because the law gave them rights to protect their husband’s welfares. Also, Athenians women supervised their domestic slaves. Usually, Athenian women used to work together with their friends and servants wool into cloth. Indeed, women in Athens and Sparta used to bring dowries to their husbands at the time of marriage, and in case those women retuned back to their fathers, they returned back with their dowries. On the other hand, Spartan women in citizen families expected wives to be good and firm mothers of future soldiers. By the same token, Athenian women were expected to be good wife and tolerate and raise

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