8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan

Demonspawn · 2013-09-04T10:41:03+00:00

Here is another reason...

"our analysis suggests that the same women’s rights that enabled Sparta to control Messenia for 300 years may also have made the eventual loss of Messenia – and thus the demise of women’s rights – inevitable. The reason is that these rights, which provided women with the proper incentives to manage Spartan estates, also raised the opportunity cost of having children."

2013-09-04T09:09:45+00:00

3. Hazing and fighting were encouraged among Spartan children.

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Even Spartan girls were known to participate in this ritualized hazing. During certain religious and state ceremonies, girls would stand before Spartan dignitaries and sing choral songs about the young men of the agoge, often singling out specific trainees for ridicule in order to shame them into stepping up their performance.

These were likely the happiest females.

Title	8 Reasons It Wasn’t Easy Being Spartan
Author	C0CKPUNCHER
Upvotes	4
Comments	4
Date	September 4, 2013 8:48 AM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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