Sparta life

My life is easy at times some may say. I start training to fight at age 7 with all the other boys and girls. We train in boxing, wrestling, foot racing, and gymnastic. The boys lived and trained in barracks. We were taught to be tough and not show pain and at times to steal. A long time ago my friend told me that he heard that a boy had taken a fox and hid it in his shirt and it bit him in the stomach that must of hurt a lot but we are told not to show pain or we would be wiped. Women were treated well and were allowed to talk to men in public and could sell goods in the marketplace and were allowed to remarry if there husband was gone too long. The money we used was hard to carry around because it was iron rods.