Transcript Athens Sparta

ATHENS vs. SPARTA
Greek city-states
location
Laconia & Attica
MILITARY
► The
Spartan warrior
was the most feared
soldier in Greece
Athenian trireme
allowed the navy to
protect the Athenian
way of life
► The
Social structure
► ATHENS
 FREEMEN
► ARISTOCRATS
► SMALL
FARMERS
► URBAN CRAFTSMEN &
TRIREME ROWERS
 METICS – CAME FROM
OUTSIDE ATHENS; NOT
ALLOWED TO OWN
LAND
 SLAVES – LOWEST
CLASS, NO RIGHTS,
PROPERTY OF
MASTERS
► SPARTA
 SPARTIATES –
MILITARY
PROFESSIONALS/
CITIZENS
 OUTSIDERS –
FREEMEN; ARTISANS,
CRAFTSMEN,
MERCHANTS
 HELOTS –
CONQUERED PEOPLES;
TREATED LIKE SLAVES;
OWED 50% OF
PRODUCE TO
SPARTIATES
Women’s roles
► Athenian:
 sequestered in the
home
 not educated
 responsible for
handicrafts and textiles
► Spartan:
 Controlled home and
land when husbands
were fighting
 “Come back with your
shield, or on it.”
EDUCATION
► Athens
 No formal education for
girls
 Boys learned rhetoric,
mathematics, reading
writing, poetry, music,
gymnastics
► Sparta
 Military school at age 7
for boys
 Lived in barracks and
stole to survive
 Girls learned athletics
sPArTA’s leGACY
► Military
contributions
► The Phalanx (shown in
the picture)
► Training and fighting
styles
► Plato viewed Sparta as
the first attempt at
forming an “ideal”
community
► Simple lifestyle
 Laconic – of few words
 Spartan – frugal,
simple, plain
Athenian legacy – Philosophy,
architecture, drama, art
Athens – birthplace of
democracy
► Adult
male citizens
directly participated in
affairs of the state
► Trial by a jury selected
by lot
► Ostracism – people
could be banished
from Athens by vote
► Council of 500, the
Assembly