What was sparta culture like?
All the Greeks were war-mad, but the Spartans were even more keen on warfare than the other Greeks. Greek freeborn men were taken from their mothers at the age of seven and raised in military barracks, where they were brought up to be warriors. The spartan warriors were regarded as the premier warriors of Greece, and feared whenever they marched out of Laconia – or even threatened to do so. The education of boys was mainly physical, but they were taught some traditional spartan musical art forms, such as competetive choral singing and dancing. The Spartan women were left to run the family farms while the men were away. Unlike Greek women, freeborn Spartan women were not expected to spend their time spinning and weaving, that was left to the slaves. Spartan women were expected to exercise and keep themselves fit so that they could bear healthy children. Girls were expected to exercise naked, like the boys, which other Greeks found quite scandalous. They reccived training in choral singi
