Sparta and Athens are the most famous city-states in Greece. The two cities are governed differently regarding social life, political system, education, economy, and religious view. In the ancient period, the role of women differed from one country to they other based on the differences in government's system. Mainly, the role of women was differnce between athens and sparta. Moreover, both have different setups in women’s power and women’s right. On the one hand, the Athenian women were treated horribly, protected and kept at home since the Athenian men believed that women were created to be sexual beings who could not control their sexual urges and hence the need to restrict and restrain them at home for their benefits. On the other hand, Spartan women arguably lived an enjoyable life with the inclusion of their rights, status, respect, and power that other women who came from different city-states in Greece were not privileged to …show more content…
The Spartan society realized that without any form of gender discrimination, people had a responsibility to serve in the Spartan military. Nevertheless, Athens was the largest and powerful Greece city-state at the time. It was the heart of political, economic, culture and financial life in Greece. Sparta was a Greece city-state that was well recognized run through a monarchy. In the book, Spartan women by Sarah B. Pomeroy, the author aims at reconstructing the world and lives of the women of Sparta including having been stuck on their surprising autonomy and the change of their legal status over a given period. The paper will focus on various ways in which the role of women in Sparta and Athens was similar as well as the differences regarding their education, rights, social life, religion, and