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Men

• Work in morning• Exercise and talk politics in afternoon and

evening• Rich men went to all male gatherings

Women

• Married at 14 or 15—have children and take care of house

• Poor women may work w/ husband in field or merchants

• Women rarely left house—if husband died-went w/ male relative

Women (con’t)

• No political rights—father, husband, children when widowed

• Aspasia-foreign woman who was educated and lived in Athens

Sparta

• Suspicious of Athens war 431 BC-404 BC

Peloponnesian Wars

• Pericles Funeral Oration– Morn Athenian dead– Tells why Athens is great—democracy and why

they fight

Sparta

• Cannot beat in open battle—call farmers behind walls

• Athens has navy—gets supplies from colonies• Disease spreads in city and killed 1/3 of

Pericles dies• Desperate to win Sparta makes deal to give

land to Persia for ships—give up Greek land in Asia Minor

• Destroy Athens's ships • Weakens all of Greece

Rule of Greece

• Sparta tries to rule Greece—war starts again in 30 years

• Macedonia to North is becoming powerful