Question

Nonia was a young man who had no individual freedoms. He was not a slave but a free man with a wife and three children, two of whom had been taken from him at the age of seven to be trained as soldiers. Nonia’s government attempts to control every aspect of his life and that of his family. In what Greek city-state did Nonia live?

Answer 1

Answer: It is Sparta. Inside Spartan society there were three social groups. Nonia obviously belonged to second group, so-called Perioeci, who were free people, but had no political rights inside the state itself.