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  SPARTIATES –
► ARISTOCRATS MILITARY
► SMALL FARMERS PROFESSIONALS/
► URBAN CRAFTSMEN & CITIZENS
TRIREME ROWERS  OUTSIDERS –
 METICS – CAME FREEMEN; ARTISANS,
FROM OUTSIDE CRAFTSMEN,
ATHENS; NOT MERCHANTS
ALLOWED TO OWN  HELOTS –
LAND CONQUERED
 SLAVES – LOWEST PEOPLES; TREATED
CLASS, NO RIGHTS, LIKE SLAVES; OWED
PROPERTY OF 50% OF PRODUCE TO
MASTERS SPARTIATES

6. WoMEN’S RolES
► Athenian:
 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
 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