The reforms of Lycurgus covered every area of Spartan life from currency to land ownership and warfare as well as spheres which might be considered a citizen’s private affairs such as dining, marriage, and childrearing. Spartan men and women were expected to eat together in dining halls, the men separated from the women, and children of both sexes were to be brought up physically fit and educated.
Boys were raised by their fathers until the age of seven when they were taken to live communally with others and begin life in the agoge, the Spartan education program mandated for all males, which emphasized military training. Spartan girls remained under the tutelage of their mothers but were expected to participate in the same physical fitness routines as the boys, as well as attend festivals and religious rituals where males and females contributed to the event.
Sports a female Spartan participated in could include wrestling, long- and short-distance running, horseback riding, hurling the javelin or discus, boxing, and racing. Education for girls also included singing, playing a musical instrument, dance, and the composition of poetry all of which came under the umbrella term mousike (“music”) which was thought to enrich and ennoble one’s character.
Painting : The selection of the infant Spartans, by The selection of the infant Spartans
womenfromhistory_bot ~ Women in Sparta, part III ~
Show moreThe reforms of Lycurgus covered every area of Spartan life from currency to land ownership and warfare as well as spheres which might be considered a citizen’s private affairs such as dining, marriage, and childrearing. Spartan men and women were expected to eat together in dining halls, the men separated from the women, and children of both sexes were to be brought up physically fit and educated.
Boys were raised by their fathers until the age of seven when they were taken to live communally with others and begin life in the agoge, the Spartan education program mandated for all males, which emphasized military training. Spartan girls remained under the tutelage of their mothers but were expected to participate in the same physical fitness routines as the boys, as well as attend festivals and religious rituals where males and females contributed to the event.
Sports a female Spartan participated in could include wrestling, long- and short-distance running, horseback riding, hurling the javelin or discus, boxing, and racing. Education for girls also included singing, playing a musical instrument, dance, and the composition of poetry all of which came under the umbrella term mousike (“music”) which was thought to enrich and ennoble one’s character.
Painting : The selection of the infant Spartans, by The selection of the infant Spartans
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