Ephebos
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Ephebos (
History
Though the word ephebos (from epi "upon" + of citizens for defense.
In the time of
After the end of the 4th century BC, the institution underwent a radical change. Enrolment ceased to be obligatory, lasted only for a year, and the limit of age was dispensed with. Inscriptions attest a continually decreasing number of ephebi, and with the admission of foreigners the college lost its representative national character. This was mainly due to the weakening of the military spirit and to the progress of intellectual culture. The military element was no longer all-important, and the ephebia became a sort of university for well-to-do young men of good family, whose social position has been compared[by whom?] with that of the Athenian "knights" of earlier times. The institution lasted till the end of the 3rd century AD.[4]
In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, foreigners, including Romans, began to be admitted as ephebes. At this period the college of ephebi was a miniature city, which possessed an archon, strategos, herald and other officials, after the model of the city of Athens.[4]
Sculpture
In Ancient Greek sculpture, an ephebe is a sculptural type depicting a nude ephebos (Archaic examples of the type are also often known as the kouros type, or kouroi in the plural). This typological name often occurs in the form "the X Ephebe", where X is the collection to which the object belongs or belonged, or the site on which it was found (e.g. the Agrigento Ephebe).
Gallery
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Bust of an ephebe, Roman copy, c. 420-400 BC -
Marble statue of an ephebe (detail), c. 400 BC -
The Antikythera Ephebe, c. 340-330 BC -
The Victorious Youth, c. 310 BC
See also
- Bishōnen
- Ephebe, a fictional nation in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Ephebic oath
- Ephebophilia
- Kóryos
- Kouros
- Pauly-Wissowa
References
- ^ "Ephebe | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org.
- ^ "Ephebus | Youth, Education, Training | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "ephebic". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ephebi". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 669–670.
- H. Jeanmaire, Couroi et Courètes: Essai sur l'éducation spartiate et sur les rites d'adolescence dans l'Antiquité hellénique, Bibliothèque universitaire, Lille, 1939
- C. Pélékidis, Éphébie: Histoire de l'éphébie attique, des origines à 31 av. J.-C., éd. de Boccard, Paris, 1962
- O. W. Reinmuth, The Ephebic Inscriptions of the Fourth Century B.C., Leiden Brill, Leyde, 1971
- P. Vidal-Naquet, Le Chasseur noir et l'origine de l'éphébie athénienne, Maspéro, 1981
- P. Vidal-Naquet, Le Chasseur noir. Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec, Maspéro, 1981
- U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Aristoteles: Aristoteles und Athen, 2 vol., Berlin, 1916
Further reading
- Budin, Stephanie Lynn (2013). Intimate Lives of the Ancient Greeks. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-31-338572-8.
- Dodd, David; Faraone, Christopher A., eds. (2013). Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-514365-7.
- Farenga, Vincent (2006). Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-13-945678-4.
- Sage, Michael (2002). Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13-476331-3.
External links
Media related to Ephebes at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of ephebos at Wiktionary
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