SPARTA

MEN

• Military training since the age of 7
• Boys marched, exercised, and trained in fighting
• They wore light tunics and no shoes
• The boys ate porridge and if they wanted more they had to steal it
• Spartans valued duty, strength, and discipline

WOMEN

• Taught to put service to Sparta
• Women recieved military training
• They ran, wrestled, and played sports
• Women had freedom to run estates while their husbands were at war
• Spartan women's daily lives surprised Athenian women

SPARTAN GOVERNMENT

• Sparta wanted to bea strong city-state
• Government had several branches:
• An assembly
• The Council of Elders
• Five elected officials and two kings

SPARTAN SOCIETY

• Social order was split into several groups
• Citizens descended from the original inhabitants
• Non citizens who were free
• Helots (not much better than slaves)
• The helots worked in the fields or as house slaves