Athena's Fragment Of A Marble Shield

In the article Athens and Sparta by Mr.Duckworth states,”Sparta had a powerful army and Athens knew that they couldn’t beat them. ”This is a good aspect because it would keep Sparta safe from intruders. In the text it states,”In Sparta women had more

Every single class within the Spartan Society was required to play a very crucial role in making sure the warrior state that was Sparta up held its high level of Military Supremacy over other Greek states and any and all potential invaders considering invading Greece. This statement did not exclude female Spartiates who were tasked with creating healthy, strong warriors to keep Sparta the Warrior state alive and thriving. Besides this stereotypical duty tasked to the Spartiate women it was not their only required job within Sparta to make sure it held Military Supremacy. Spartiate women often played a major role in economic, religious and often social aspects of the Spartan Society. Archaeological evidence from ‘Artemis Orthia’ (A Religious Temple) like ‘Statue of a young female athlete’ have supported some of the information given by these ancient sources and supported the sterotype of Spartan women as being highly visible and active within the state compared to their Greek Counterparts.

In the article by Aristotle’s, Spartan Women, he shares that, “the legislator wanted to make the whole state hardy and temperate, and he has carried out his intention in the case of the men, but he has neglected the women, who live in every sort of intemperance and luxury.” With the reading and discussing it in class, Sparta Women were “used”, the Peloponnesian War Influenced Aristotle article because this was the time when women were doing the most work and he saw this a wrong. Spartan Women were taking for granted, these women jumped in and covered for their men and played a major role.

The treatment between women in Athens and women in Sparta was the difference between night and day. Women were treated completely different in Athens compared to Sparta. Neither of the society’s women were seen as overpowered or superior to men, but in one culture, women live a better life than the other. Women from Spartan civilizations were treated equal to men during their youth. Women from Sparta ran the civilizations due to the fact of the men serving in the military from the age of seven to the age of sixty-five.

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter tells the story of Demeter, the goddess of fertility of grain. Demeter has a daughter with Zeus by the name of Persephone. The hymn explains the strong bond between Demeter and Persephone and how distraught Demeter is when her daughter is abducted. This traumatic event causes Demeter to live among mortal men disguised as an old woman and withdraw the fertility of the earth. In this paper, I will examine how the Homeric Hymn to Demeter operates as a charter myth, or narrative that explains modern practices, and how successful the hymn is in conveying the modern practice.

The article “No women no war” was written by Pasi Loman , a post graduate student from university of Nottingham. Loman discusses about the role of Greek women in defending their cities and communities. The author attempts to clarify the assumptions made by modern scholars or authors that women did not play a part in foreign military campaigns i.e. war. Loman discusses about Greek women and their views, emotion and reaction based on warfare, the impossible existence of amazons.

Ancient Greece is known for their meddlesome gods and strong heroes, but without influential women, the gods and heroes would not have become the being we know. In Greece, the men went to war and women stay at home waiting for them to return. Women are ordered around by most men, even their sons. Telemachus commands his mother to go back to her room in a disrespectful tone to his masculinity to his mother’s suitors. Women in ancient Greece were not known for their physical brawn; instead, Helen, Penelope, Athena, the Sirens, Circe, and Calypso use their strong intuition, unique skills, and intelligence to influence the heroes on their journey.

This investigation will attempt to answer the question what are the similarities and differences of the role of women in Athens and Sparta. The question is relevant because women’s roles have developed over time and knowing women’s history helps women’s rights to keep moving forward. The issues that will be addressed are the religious, job roles and the expectations of women in their society. Women of wealth and women of lower classes will be included. This investigation will focus on the time period of 600 BC to 300 BC and the places investigated will include Athens and Sparta. This will be accomplished through a thorough examination of academic journals, books and websites.

Women in antiquity did not have an easy life. In an era where man rules, women have limited freedom and few rights. Women’s roles differed little from Rome, Egypt, and China. There were few exceptions: women living in the city of Sparta had some nobility and rose to power, for example, Athena, the goddess of wisdom and military victory. Besides those above, women of that era were limited to an education, mobility, and their roles was housewives and childbearing. Women had little time to involve herself in the political goings on in that era.

Their alters and temples probably functioned as places of worship. Several of their statues and paintings are thought to be depictions of a goddess.

Despite Athenian and Spartans being associates of the same influential nation, these two states or ‘Peloi’ and denominations of people in Ancient Greece in (400BC) were substantially different. The women in their own distinct societies endured several problematic issues and experienced inequity, demoralisation and condemnation. The notion of women and their purpose was typically conjectured by men in society, specifically Aristotle who claimed that women brought ‘disorder, were evil, were utterly useless and caused more confusion than the enemy’ . However despite misogynistic, biased and loathsome perspectives of women, both Athenian and Spartan women have all played exceedingly significant roles and contributed substantially to the prosperity of Ancient Greek society in their own inimitable ways.

In the ancient societies of Greece, war means many things; power, glory, honor. The idea of fighting is not just a daily task for the Greeks but a necessity. In

Throughout ancient human history, men and women held vastly different roles. Women were often given the duty of bearing and raising children, whereas men were expected to fight, provide an income, and protect the household. Women were seen as totally inferior to men and described by Euripedes as “a curse to mankind” and “a plague worse than fire or any viper.” However, this misogynistic view of women and designated role of inferiority was not apparent in every ancient civilization. The role of the female in ancient Greek history can best be explored and contrasted between two important civilizations: The Spartans and the Athenians. The Spartan women were incredibly advanced for their time, and the Athenian women were drastically far behind. Both the Spartan and Athenian women held roles at home and lived lives far removed from the men of their societies. However, their lives were much different. While the Spartan women were strong and educated, the Athenian women held a status almost equal to slavery. The Spartan women were far more advanced than Athenians in aspects of life including education, athleticism, and independence.

Beside the invasion, cultural artifacts is also an aspect that is misjudged towards people’s genesis. Firstly, cultural artifacts are merely shown the adaptation to what is better, rather than expressions of one’s origin. For example, Pryor has a conversation with Sam Lucy, an archaeologist, about the change in burial rights in Britain during the end of The Roman period; Lucy mentions how people were buried with different objects: “a cross shaped branch, and this approach isn’t a continental import. It’s idea came ultimately from the continent, but it is a British product” (Sam Lucy). This reveals that the idea of the object comes from outside of Britain, but British people are the one who modify and execute that idea. The fact that British takes the ideas from continent to differ their style proves that artifacts are found to belong to Anglo-Saxon people could actually be made similarly by the British to improve their daily life. So this idea indicates that culture artifacts do not tell where people come from. Moreoever, cultural artifacts are found around the world might have been traded and transported there, and did not belong to local inhabitants. Particularly, Mark Cartwright, who has a Master of Arts in Greek philosophy, talks about trading goods in ancient times: “goods were not only exchanged across the Roman world, however, as bustling ports such as Gades, Ostia, Puteoli, Alexandria, and Antioch also imported goods from such far-flung places as Arabia,

Beside the invasion, cultural artifacts is also an aspect that is misjudged towards people’s genesis. Firstly, cultural artifacts are merely shown the adaption to what is better, rather than expression of one’s origin. For example, Pryor has a conversation with Sam Lucy, an archaeologist, about the change in burial rights in Britain during the end of The Roman period; Lucy mentions how people were buried with different objects: “a cross shaped branch, and this approach isn’t a continental import. It’s idea came ultimately from the continent, but it is a British product” (Sam Lucy). This reveals that the idea of the object comes from outside of Britain, but British people are the one who modify and execute that idea. The fact that British takes the ideas from continent to differ their style proves that artifacts are found to belong to Anglo-Saxon people could actually be made similarly by the British to improve their daily life. So this idea indicates that culture artifacts do not tell where people come from. Moreoever, cultural artifacts are found around the world might have been traded and transported there, and did not belong to local inhibitants. Particularly, Mark Cartwright, who has a Master of Arts in Greek philosophy, talks about trading goods in ancient times: “goods were not only exchanged across the Roman world, however, as bustling ports such as Gades, Ostia, Puteoli, Alexandria, and Antioch also imported goods from such far-flung places as Arabia,