Athens and Sparta

Girls stayed home and were instructed by their mom on how to keep a home and raise children

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Center of culture and arts

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Boys were taught to read and write and to participate in the cultural life

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Philosophers debated and discussed the great ideas of the time.

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Ruled by democracy

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Women rarely enter public spaces

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

City-state in Greece

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Women were expected to run the household

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Some of the farming was done by enslaved people

• Athens

• Sparta

• both

Enslaved others

• Athens

• Sparta

• both