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?

Sparta

Athens

Rome

Thebes

Sparta

Explanation:

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.

Compared to other cities in ancient Greece, the organization of social strata in Ancient Sparta was visibly different. In Sparta there were no social classes of priests, nobles, merchants, farmers and slaves, as they existed in most of the Hellenic world.

The second social layer, to which Nonia is belonging is "those who live in the surrounding area". These were people who lived in the vicinity of Sparta and who had some degree of autonomy but were denied Spartan civil rights.