HIST101 Lecture 2: The Peloponnesian War (Notes)
8 Sep 2016
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Olive oil, wine, and pottery were their main exports. Large banquets with fine food, singing, dancing, and poetry read aloud. Women did not leave the house without a male escort. A woman"s place was in the home: government. Heavily slave-owning, with agricultural work being done by slaves in the nearby conquered city of messenia. Military and warfare were important: culture. Women did not go to war, but had many of the same rights as men. Were allowed to compete in rough athletics. Nearly 40% of spartan women owned land: government. Due to slave uprisings being common, spartans often lived in a state of martial law. Both communities compared themselves to each other, with each believing their way of life was better than the other. The peloponnesian league: before the persian war, sparta allied with a group of cities on the greek peninsula, this alliance emphasized the difference between the spartan peninsulars and the mainland athenians.
