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For my western civ project I decided to do a series of comics about Ancient Greece in homage to Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant series.
Oh Spartan life must have been sooo romantic.
...
It was of course in doing this project did I realize how much I realize I suck at comics. Especially when it comes to type. I don't know the proper kinds to put in through photoshop and my handwriting is just dumb...so yea...I feel like it really detracts from the whole thing overall. Oh well. Hopefully I'll still do alright on this project.

Here is the caption I wrote for this one:
"In contrast to the women of Athens, women in Sparta during the time of ancient Greece had much more independence. Women of Sparta received an education quite equal to the likes of men. Beyond that, they often did not get married until they were 18, and even then they did not move in with their husbands until much later, often at the age of 30 (Blundell 145). Women even got to take part in processions, ritual dances, and sporting competitions, frequently in the nude (Blundell 152). This incites the question of what the motivation and reasoning of Spartan men to allow this to happen, especially when another major city-state nearby took such opposing views on the matter. Another curious mannerism of the Spartans were the marriage ceremonies and rituals. It was common for women on the marriage night to have their heads shaven and dressed as men. They would meet with their husbands alone in at night and consummate, spending a few hours together before the husband would return to his barracks. This ritual would continue for an extended period of time until the woman moved in with her husband (Blundell 153). The citizens of Sparta were also openly polygamous. They conducted practices of “wife borrowing,” in which men would marry each others wives (Blundell 154). This is a particularly striking custom as it illustrates the very base and simplistic culture of the Spartans. They had no need for complicated laws and social orders in their militaristic city-state. "

Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995. Print.

Hope, Thomas. Costumes of the Greeks and Romans. New York: Dover Publications, 1962. Print.

See the other comics here:
300: [link]
Athens: [link]

Description
For my western civ project I decided to do a series of comics about Ancient Greece in homage to Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant series.
Oh Spartan life must have been sooo romantic.
...
It was of course in doing this project did I realize how much I realize I suck at comics. Especially when it comes to type. I don't know the proper kinds to put in through photoshop and my handwriting is just dumb...so yea...I feel like it really detracts from the whole thing overall. Oh well. Hopefully I'll still do alright on this project.

Here is the caption I wrote for this one:
"In contrast to the women of Athens, women in Sparta during the time of ancient Greece had much more independence. Women of Sparta received an education quite equal to the likes of men. Beyond that, they often did not get married until they were 18, and even then they did not move in with their husbands until much later, often at the age of 30 (Blundell 145). Women even got to take part in processions, ritual dances, and sporting competitions, frequently in the nude (Blundell 152). This incites the question of what the motivation and reasoning of Spartan men to allow this to happen, especially when another major city-state nearby took such opposing views on the matter. Another curious mannerism of the Spartans were the marriage ceremonies and rituals. It was common for women on the marriage night to have their heads shaven and dressed as men. They would meet with their husbands alone in at night and consummate, spending a few hours together before the husband would return to his barracks. This ritual would continue for an extended period of time until the woman moved in with her husband (Blundell 153). The citizens of Sparta were also openly polygamous. They conducted practices of “wife borrowing,” in which men would marry each others wives (Blundell 154). This is a particularly striking custom as it illustrates the very base and simplistic culture of the Spartans. They had no need for complicated laws and social orders in their militaristic city-state. "

Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995. Print.

Hope, Thomas. Costumes of the Greeks and Romans. New York: Dover Publications, 1962. Print.

See the other comics here:
300: [link]
Athens: [link]