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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.
Price: $159.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy
Publication Date:
29 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004402041
Format: Hardcover
"(...) 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)
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).