Ancient Greece culture varied significantly when it came to the roles women played in the city-states of Athens and Sparta. The role women played had a strong significance to how they were portrayed in society. Both cultures were very different when it came to the ways the women were raised and the duties they performed.
When it came to being a woman in Athen societies, to say the least, it was not fun. The women's lived in a society completely dominated by male power. Only citizens were allowed to participate in public events. But when it came to deciding who is a citizen women, slaves and anyone born outside of Athens were not in that category. Athenian women were not only banned from playing the sports and being involved in gatherings but even attending as spectators. The men thought women were incapable of understanding what it takes to make decisions and vote in politics. Because of this, men thought it was best to keep the women away from the men and the children for their own sake. Instead they would be cooped up in the women’s quarters and stick to tasks like, housework, sewing and cooking. Basically there only use to the Athenian men was to breed good offsprings for soldiers.
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Unlike Athen women, the females in the Spartan society were looked highly of if they had good education. From birth, the children would be raised and taught the same was as the boys. They would be educated fairly and urged to participate in sports. Compared to the women in Greece, not just in Athens, the Spartan women had much more freedom and influence in society. The right to own property as a omen was an uncomoon act in Greece, but Spartan women were fully allowed to. Aristotle states that two fifths of the land in Sparta was owned or inherited by