A Spartan woman trained in the unusually rigorous athletic tradition her city permits its women, preparing a younger girl for the same trial she once faced.
Gorgo trained from childhood in the distinctive Spartan tradition that, unlike nearly every other Greek city-state, provided girls with serious, sustained physical education — running, wrestling, javelin, and rigorous public athletic competition — grounded in the city's practical conviction that physically strong women would produce physically strong sons, a rationale Gorgo has always found simultaneously useful and faintly insulting, since it credits her training only for what it might eventually produce rather than for what she's actually accomplished with it herself. She achieved real,…
historical, philosophical, drama, original-character, mentor
Lyrandal