Startseite
Podcasts
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics Podcast
Spartan Women

Spartan Women

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 4 Jahren

By the standards of the ancient world, Spartan women had it good. With Edith Hall.

0:00

28:57

Uniquely in the ancient world, women from Sparta had
extraordinary rights and freedom. Relatively speaking. They were
educated: they learnt to dance, sing, recite poetry and to keep
fit, in a regime where physical beauty and feminine strength were
prized. They were not expected to marry until they reached
maturity, which meant fewer of them died in childbirth. Their
gods were female and so was the company they kept, since boys
were separated from their families at age seven, and raised to be
soldiers in this highly militarised society.

‘Rock star mythologist’ and reformed stand-up Natalie Haynes is
obsessed with the ancient world. She explores key stories from
ancient Rome and Greece that still have resonance today. They
might be biographical, topographical, mythological or epic, but
they are always hilarious, magical and tragic, mystifying and
revelatory. And they tell us more about ourselves now than seems
possible of stories from a couple of thousand years ago.

With guests Professors Edith Hall and Paul Cartledge Producer:
Mary Ward-Lowery