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- Gr****: ἔφηβοι), latinized as ephebus (pl. ephebi) and anglicised as ephebe (pl. ephebes), is a term for a male adolescent in Ancient Greece. The term was...
- time for Ephebe's major export: philosophy. For what it's worth (about one Ankh-Morpork penny), the currency of Ephebe is the talent. Ephebe is a city...
- The Antikythera Ephebe, registered as Bronze statue of a youth in the museum collections, is a Gr**** bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that...
- poetry. The preference for Christian male and female slaves over women or ephebes of their own culture contributed to the hostility of the Christian kingdoms...
- the agoge at the age of eighteen and receive the title of ephebes. Upon becoming an ephebe, the male would pledge strict and complete allegiance to Sparta...
- for his first sculptural commission in Rome, to create statues of four ephebes, or young adolescent men, and eight dolphins. They were originally intended...
- to sacrifices being made to river deities, including the sacrifice of ephebes' hair. During military campaigns into foreign territory, there is evidence...
- The marble Kritios Boy or Kritian Boy belongs to the Early classical period of ancient Gr**** sculpture. It is the first statue from classical antiquity...
- The Marathon Boy or Ephebe of Marathon is a Gr**** bronze sculpture found in the Aegean Sea in the bay of Marathon in 1925. The sculpture is conserved in...
- be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth). Apollo is known in Gr****-influenced Etruscan...