The childhood in Athens was very strict in comparison to Spartan girls. Athenian girls were rarely put into schooling, and only the wealthiest were. Unlike Sparta, girls were removed from their homes at age seven. While Sparta girls were at school learning and training. “Most stayed at home and learnt from the women of the household” (Garden, 1980, p. 112) both Spartan and Athenian girls would live at home; “Spartan girls lived at home, not in army barracks” (Conroy, 1994, pp. 78-79). Sparta girls would be organised into groups and would sometimes exercise organised into groups and would in most sports, like with the boys, participated in most sports, like running, wrestling, throwing javelin, discuss and ballgames. Although in Athens the girls lived in a completely different world of activity, most would stay home, learn to spin, weave and would help develop the family clothes. This overview of childhood in ancient Greece, explicitly proves female childhood in Athens and Sparta was influenced greatly by the government, implying Athenian girls are below males and females in Sparta were more respected. The structure of their government systems strongly influenced the amount of education the females of Sparta and Athens received.
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