The Athenian Ephebeia in the Fourth Century BCE.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎Chapter 2. An Aeschinean Ephebeia? -- ‎2.1. The Controversy -- ‎2.2. Origin of Ephebos -- ‎2.3. Training before Chaeronea? -- ‎2.4. Aeschines' Peripoleia -- ‎2.5. Aeschines without the Ephebeia -- ‎Chapter 3. The Creation of the Ephebeia -- ‎3.1. The Law of Epicrates -- ‎3.2. Reaction to Chaeronea? -- ‎3.3. The Defense of Attica -- ‎3.4. The Destruction of Thebes -- ‎3.5. Lycurgus and the Ephebeia -- ‎Chapter 4. The Defenders of Athens -- ‎4.1. Kosmetes and Sophronistes -- ‎4.2. Strategoi and Peripolarchoi -- ‎4.3. Eutaxia: Discipline in the Ephebeia -- ‎4.4. Training Ephebes -- ‎4.5. Espirit De Corps -- ‎Chapter 5. Ephebes and the Ephebeia -- ‎5.1. Citizen Participation -- ‎5.2. Exemptions and Citizenship -- ‎5.3. The Motivation to Serve -- ‎5.4. The "Bad" Ephebe -- ‎5.5. Persuasion or Coercion? -- ‎5.6. Honors during Service -- ‎5.7. Honors after Service -- ‎Chapter 6. Educating Ephebes -- ‎6.1. The Need for an Ephebic Paideia -- ‎6.2. Sophrosyne in the Ephebeia -- ‎6.3. Patriotism, Glory, and Self-Sacrifice -- ‎6.4. Festival Participation -- ‎6.5. Ephebes as Liminal Figures? -- ‎Chapter 7. Epilogue: After Lycurgus -- ‎Catalogue -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index of Names and Subjects -- ‎Index of Inscriptions -- ‎Index of Literary Sources.

This book offers a reassessment of the late Classical and early Hellenistic Athenian ephebeia, a state-organized and -funded system of mandatory national service for citizens in their nineteenth and twentieth years, consisting of garrison duty, military training, and civic education.

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