History Of Iran: Histories Of Herodotus, Book 1
Spartan boys left household at age seven for a rigorous state upbringing. A Spartiate who married ahead of age thirty was not allowed to reside with his wife beyond infrequent secret visits. Fathers who had married immediately after thirty lived most of their lives communally, with male peers. In Cartledge’s view, Spartan ladies enjoyed “specific freedoms, which includes legal freedoms, that were denied to their Athenian counterparts, but they had been not, to place it mildly, as liberated as all…