-
Ephebos (Gr****: ἔφηβος; pl.
epheboi, Gr****: ἔφηβοι),
latinized as
ephebus (pl. ephebi) and
anglicised as
ephebe (pl. ephebes), is a term for a male adolescent...
- Eucleia, as a
goddess of
marriage in Boeotia,
Locris and
other cities.
Epheboi and
girls who
wanted to
marry should make a
preliminary sacrifice in honour...
- the
gymnasium of the
epheboi and
sometimes financed heavy expenses from his own purse. The same name was
given to rich
epheboi, who
undertook for a longer...
- duties. If, for instance, a
young citizen was to be
admitted among the
epheboi, he was
examined in an ****embly of his
district to find out
whether he...
- the 3rd
century BC, and from the 2nd
century BC also a
gymnasium of the
epheboi, to
which baths were
added during Roman times in the 1st
century AD. At...
-
gymnasiarch and of ephebarch, with
responsibility for the neoi (young) and
epheboi (adolescents), are
attested at Sestos. Upon the
death of
Attalus III, King...
- Corfu; in some
places dioiketai are
attested for
smaller bodies (e.g., the
ephēboi of Cyzicus), or even in
private households. In
Byzantine times, the term...
- of
cannibalism and the
possibility of a
werewolf transformation for the
epheboi (adolescent males) who were the parti****nts. The
festival occurred yearly...
-
comparing them with the
Spartan elite unit
hippeis (ἱππεῖς) and the
Athenian epheboi (ἔφηβοι) recruits,
DeVoto estimates that
trainees were
inducted as full...
-
place called Phoebeon,
there was a
temple dedicated to the Dioscuri,
where epheboi were sacrificed. Also near this
temple was a
sanctuary of Poseidon. Other...
