A Lifestyle of a woman in ancient Greece was very dull, for Athenians and most city states although Sparta women were fortunate in comparison of Athenian women. Women in Athens had very pint-sized freedom unlike in Sparta where the women had much more freedom; they didn’t need their husband’s permission to leave the house and could run their own business. “When women went out of doors, they were not allowed to wear more than three garments, or to carry more than obol’s worth of food and drink, or a basket more than 18 inches high, or to travel at night except in a wagon with a lamp in the front of it.” (Plutarch, cited in Williams, 1996:390-1) Athenian women were restricted from many things though, having the advantage of being able to have slaves allocated to all the things that needed to be done, such as cooking, cleaning, sewing and raising the kids. Although that was only the wealthy, in Sparta the women were trained worriers and were forced to attend military school outside the household, because in Sparta it is believed that strong mothers produced strong children. “The men of Sparta always did what their wives told them, and let women take part in public affairs, even though men were not aloud to share household organization.” (Plutarch, cited in 1999:34) Due to the adjustments taken out on the lifestyle of women by governments in Ancient Greece, the lifestyle styles of both Athens and Sparta were completely different.
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