1. ATHENS vs. SPARTA
Greek city-states

2. location

3. Laconia & Attica

4. MILITARY The Spartan warrior was the most feared soldier in Greece
The Athenian trireme allowed the navy to protect the Athenian way of life

5. Social structure ATHENS SPARTA 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

6. Women’s roles Athenian: Spartan: 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.”

7. EDUCATION Athens Sparta 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

8. 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

9. Athenian legacy – Philosophy, architecture, drama, art

10. 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