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important and powerful figures in Sparta
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and we'll want to ask how that happened,
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but even more we'll want
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to ask how that shaped the way they behaved
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once they became important people.
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Now, up to now, I've been talking about men,
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but it's important to talk about Spartan women too,
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because they were different from other Greek women,
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just as the men were different.
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Just to make that clear,
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let me make it plain that the rest of the Greeks treated women
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very, very differently from men,