ABSTRACT
Childhood in Archaic and Classical Greece was far from being a homogeneous entity, for not only was the juvenile condition perceived and experienced differently according to gender, social class and developmental age/stage, but also according to geo-cultural location. This chapter considers the evidence of ancient literary and archaeological, especially iconographic, sources to compare the Athenian and Spartan contexts, and thereby seeks to evaluate the impact of regionalism on the definition, perception, treatment and representation of the juvenile state in the ancient Greek world.
