What was it like to be a woman immersed in the military culture of Sparta? What family life was like in Sparta? Why do we want to study what it was like to be a Spartan woman? Because in the future we will be reflecting on Plato’s Republic. In his utopia he describes some odd marital practices, controlled by the state, that may be similar to Spartan practices. Was Plato’s Republic actually a reflection on whether the Spartan social mores were superior to the Athenian social mores? After all, Sparta did win the Peloponnesian Wars, Was Spartan culture seen as superior by some in Athens?
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We will discuss:
• How being a woman in any ancient warrior culture was a challenge, as depicted in Homer classic, the Iliad, where the basic plot line was two warriors, Achilles and King Agamemnon, who bickered over a concubine captured in raids in the Trojan Wars.
• Marriage customs in Sparta, and why adultery was nearly impossible in Sparta.
• How it was common in the ancient world for a conquering hostile city-state to slaughter all the military age men, enslave the women and children, and loot all the property of the losing side. Athens treated the Melians this way in the Peloponnesian Wars. Other examples are Queen Andromache of Troy, the Rape of the Sabine women, which was a founding Roman myth, and the Benjamin men in the Book of Judges.
• Whether kidnapping was an acceptable method of courtship in Sparta, which was banned by the Council of Trent.
• How the Spartan military lifestyle encouraged rampant homosexuality and pederasty.
• How unhealthy children we exposed on a rugged spot near Mount Taygetus, since death was preferable for both the child and the state if it was weak and sickly.
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