women in the home(sparta)

Question 1

spartan society expected married women to do what

Answer 1

convieve and bear children

Question 2

for married spartan women to concive and bear children what duty was it

Answer 2

public duty

Question 3

the edication revieved by spartan girls was designed to

Answer 3

prepare bodies for child body and to produce healthy babies

Question 4

spartan women could not have a what

Answer 4

grave marker

Question 5

spartan women could not have a grave marker till

Answer 5

you had given birth as achild

Question 6

is child bearing important in sparta

Answer 6

very important

Question 7

polyandry

Answer 7

marriage of woman to two or more men at the same time ( many(poly) man( andros- greek))

Question 8

what did the grave stones celebrate

Answer 8

service to state

Question 9

in sparta it was usual for a healthy women to have multiple what

Answer 9

sexula partners

Question 10

spartan women had many sexual partners because

Answer 10

they wou;ld have more children

Question 11

xephon consition of spartans mean

Answer 11

if a man saw a women who was good child breeder the man would ask the husband can I have sex with the women

Question 12

what duties were spartan women not expected to do

Answer 12

work wool and stay indoors

Question 13

what duties were spartan women expected to do

Answer 13

physical training ,managing household,farm and upholding spartan ethos

Question 14

how long would spartan women were expected to produces babies

Answer 14

until they were infertile

Question 15

what is kleros

Answer 15

household farm on a plot of land assigned b y there state of a spartan warrior

Question 16

what is sysstiton

Answer 16

a communal mess hall (dining room) in which
Spartan warriors dined and for which each man had to
contribute food.

Question 17

what were spartam women also responsible for

Answer 17

kleros(farm)

Question 18

spartan women would be responsible for the farm while the men would be doing what

Answer 18

men were training in their communal barrakcs

Question 19

sparatn wives would direct slaves to do what

Answer 19

work and ensure food was produced to support the household

Question 20

women made descisions about

Answer 20

what to grow, when to
purchase equipment and how to sell any surplus.

Question 21

agoge

Answer 21

the training school that all Spartan boys attended
from the age
of seven

Question 22

spartan women must recieve what kind of training

Answer 22

arithmetic in order to manage the farm as well as the household.

Question 23

what were spartan women able to inherit that athenians couldn’t

Answer 23

property

Question 24

were spartan women rich

Answer 24

Spartan women were very wealthy and
were powerful enough to decide how to spend this wealth by
themselves.

Question 25

what was one of the most important roles that women had

Answer 25

to instil a love of Sparta and obedience to its system in their sons

Question 26

where did spartan women had to send there sons

Answer 26

the gruelling training in the agoge without hesitation or question.

Question 27

how did they prepare the sons

Answer 27

making
sure that they were brought up loving the Spartan state and willing to
give everything to protect it.

Question 28

spartan women also believe that when the husband goes to war

Answer 28

either he is killed or comes back victorious