Because Sparta’s male citizens were required to devote their lives to the military and other forms of public service, Sparta’s matrons ran the estates of their husbands. This meant that Spartan wives controlled the family wealth – and, in effect, the entire Spartan agricultural economy. A Spartan citizen was dependent on his wife’s efficiency to pay his dues to his dining club and his son’s agoge fees. This economic power is in particularly sharp contrast to cities such as Athens, where it was illegal for a woman to control more money than she needed to buy a bushel of grain.
27 agosto 2016
Sparta Was Really Run By Women
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