Spartan women /

Publisher description: Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Education
  • 2. Becoming a wife
  • 3. The creation of mothers
  • 4. Elite women
  • 5. The lower classes
  • 6. Women and religion.