Spartan women could own and control the land. “Yet it appears that Spartan daughters received as dowries half the amount of their parents' property that their brothers received as inheritances.” (Pomeroy, Sarah B., Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts. “Becoming a Spartan Woman.” Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 143. Print) While Athenian women received only a sixth of the amount inherited from their brothers. Spartan women inherited three times more than their Athenian sisters. Spartan women were also allowed and even encouraged to be educated, while the education of Athenian girls was almost non-existent. In Athens most girls “…received simply basic training in how to run the home, usually from their mothers. Girls may also have been discouraged from becoming literate to keep them "pristine". (Garland, Robert. "The People." Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 103. Print.) While in Sparta girls were educated at state expense. “Specific lines of development were prescribed for both Spartan girls and boys. The girls' education system was also organized by age group. (Pomeroy, Sarah B., Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts. “Becoming a Spartan Woman.” Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 141. Print ) At Spartan women were also allowed more freedom in the way they dressed than their Athenian counterparts. “In the past, Athenian women wore the peplos, a long, heavy woolen garment that revealed little of the figure underneath. Towards the middle of the 6th century BC the peplum was replaced by a lighter and more valuable linen garment called