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SPARTA
INTRODUCTION
Thel Greeks were considered excellent warriors. The City-States were sorrounded by walls to protect themselves from the aggressors.
However, Sparta has no murals because her army was the most feared in the ancient world.
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Life in Sparta
At birth, older Spartan leaders examined newborns. Strong and healthy babies were considered to be able to fulfill this purpose, and the other had to be left to die on Mount Taygetus. Every spartan boy or girl, was expected to be physically strong and emotinally resillent.
EDUCATION
Every newborn, his absolute duty was to defend and promote Sparta at all cost.
In the first years of life, children were educated to undersatand that they owed fidelity first to Sparta, and then to their family, in this way of thinking perhaps it made it easier for spartan children sent o the agora when they were seven years old.
Agora was a place that had only one purpose: to turn a child into a Spartan warrior through thirteen years of continuous hasxh adn often cruel training.
MEN
The Spartans expected physical perfection first an foremost. This is why students spent a lot of time learning to fight to ensure their edurance in battle.
Children wer encorauged to fight each other and humiliation, unlike todayt, was acceptable.
To better prepare children for war conditions, they were sometimes poorly fed, thety would go days without eating. Thy were also given little clothing so that thet would learn to deal with different temperatures. They were encouraged to steal to sorvive, buth if they were learned, not because they sole, but because they got caught.
During the annual contest of resistence, in a religuos ritual, known as Diamadtigosis, teenagers were flogged in front of an altar at the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia.
Childern often died at the altar of the goddess.
Forunatly, not everything was so cruel. They were also taught to read, write and dance.
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WOMEN
Spartan girls lived at home with their mothers while they studied. Its curriculum includes arts, music, dance, reading, and writing. In Sparta it was believed that only strong and capable women could one day beget strong and competent warriors.
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