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What is the future life’s work of an Athenian female and a Spartan female at birth?

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Spartan females needed to take care of the house but also had to take care of their bodies to keep the solider values. Athenian females had to do the same thing but had more household duties and no solider values to bring

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Even though Athenian and spartan are both Hellenic cultures, their customs and especially women's behavior and rights were quite different.

Athenian females had the duty to take care of the household, raise the children and perform all kinds of domestic work at home.

Spartan female's primary role was to bear and raise strong children. A spartan woman was expected to have a fit body, a healthy appearance since healthy women were more likely to produce healthy children.

Spartan women had significantly more freedom and rights by law than their Athenian counterparts.

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