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In The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus Thomas R. Henderson provides a new history of the Athenian ephebeia, a system of military, athletic, and moral instruction for new Athenian citizens. Characterized as a system of hoplite training with roots in ancient initiation rituals, the institution appears here as a later Lykourgan creation with the aim of reinvigorating Athenian civic culture.
This book also presents a re-evaluation of the Hellenistic phase of the ephebeia, which has been commonly regarded as an institution in decline. Utilizing new epigraphic material, the author demonstrates that, in addition to rigorous military training, the ephebeia remained an important institution and played a vital and vibrant part of Athenian civic life.
Price: $162.00
Pages: 440
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy
Publication Date:
06 August 2020
ISBN: 9789004433359
Format: Hardcover
''[Readers] will benefit from reading this book which marks a real progress in our knowledge of the Athenian ephēbeia and will henceforth be a reference work for anyone who wants to be informed either on this institution in general or on its particular aspects.'' Andrzej S. Chankowski, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (05.13.2022)
Thomas R. Henderson, Ph.D. (2012), Florida State University, is an independent scholar whose research interests include the history of Athens, Greek epigraphy, and Athenian civic life and culture in the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.