Athens

• Athens


  • Loved their freedom
  • Spartans did as they were told
• Athens


  • Emphasized arts, architecture, and literature
• Athenian duties


  • Obey the laws
  • Serve in the military
  • Help run the city
  • Pay taxes
  • Serve on juries
• Purpose of Athenian education

  Producing good citizens
• Athenian education


  • Taught sports like gymnastics and wrestling to strengthen students
  • Learned to sing and play instruments like the lyre
• Girls grew up helping their mothers at home
• Solon


  Made important laws such as granting slaves freedom and no citizen can be turned into a slave
• Cleisthenes


  Father of Athenian democracy and created a constitution
• Athens had a limited democracy which meant it did not include everyone living in the city-state
• Only free adult males were citizens and could serve in the government