We learned about the differences between life in Athens and Sparta for men and women and how their marriages were different. Spartans get married after both proving their strength, including the man having to lift the lady. The young lady would burn her dolls as sign that she had grown up but then they didn't live together. The Athenian girl was married as soon as her father shook hands with the man. They didn't meet until their wedding day.
Athenians lived in a Democracy. When electing a new leader the Athenian men gave a speech to say why they should be the leader and the men voted by putting a coin ina pot in front of the candidates. Spartans took a more physical appoorach with a battle of strength to choose their leader who would then make all the decisions for the city.
Top
Cookies
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
Our cookies ensure you get the best experience on our website.
Please make your choice!
Cookies
Some cookies are necessary in order to make this website function correctly. These are set
by default and whilst you can block or delete them by changing your browser settings, some
functionality such as being able to log in to the website will not work if you do this.
The necessary cookies set on this website are as follows:
Website CMS
A 'sessionid' token is required for logging in to the website and a 'crfstoken' token is
used to prevent cross site request forgery.
An 'alertDismissed' token is used to prevent certain alerts from re-appearing if they have
been dismissed.
An 'awsUploads' object is used to facilitate file uploads.
Matomo
We use
Matomo cookies
to improve the website performance by capturing information such as browser and device
types. The data from this cookie is anonymised.
reCaptcha
Cookies are used to help distinguish between humans and bots on contact forms on this
website.
Cookie notice
A cookie is used to store your cookie preferences for this website.
Cookies that are not necessary to make the website work, but which enable additional
functionality, can also be set. By default these cookies are disabled, but you can choose to
enable them below: