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The Athenian Ephebeia in the Fourth Century BCE
Series: - Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Volume: 13
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Based on the comprehensive study of the epigraphic and literary evidence, this book challenges the almost universally-held assumptions of modern scholarship on the date of origin, the function, and the purpose of the Athenian ephebeia. It offers a detailed reconstruction of the institution, which in the fourth century BCE was a state-organized and -funded system of mandatory national service for ephebes, citizens in their nineteenth and twentieth years, consisting of garrison duty, military training, and civic education. It concludes that the contribution of the ephebeia was vital for the security of Attica and that the ephebes’ non-military activities were moulded by social, economic, and religious influences which reflect the preoccupations of Lycurgus’ administration in the 330s and 320s BCE.
John L. Friend, Ph.D. (2009), University of Texas, is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee. He has published on the Athenian ephebeia and Greek warfare, most recently in Ancient Documents and Their Contexts (Brill, 2014).
"(...) the work is destined to become the principle reference tool for the ephebic inscriptions of the Lycurgan period, replacing Reinmuth’s 1971 catalogue." - Nicholas Sekunda, University of Gdańsk, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020.11.20
''(...) this book represents a valuable contribution not just to the history of the Athenian ephebeia, but also to our ever-richer picture of the texture of Athenian civic life in the last third of the fourth century.'' Polly Low, in The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)
''(...) this book represents a valuable contribution not just to the history of the Athenian ephebeia, but also to our ever-richer picture of the texture of Athenian civic life in the last third of the fourth century.'' Polly Low, in The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)
Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations
1 Introduction
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
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
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
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
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?
7 Epilogue: After Lycurgus
Catalogue
Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Inscriptions Index of Literary Sources
1 Introduction
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
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
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
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
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?
7 Epilogue: After Lycurgus
Catalogue
Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Inscriptions Index of Literary Sources
The book caters both to the specialist and to the general academic reader. It will interest anyone studying the ephebeia, Greek warfare, epigraphy, and/or Lycurgan Athens.