The Athenian Ephebeia in the Fourth Century BCE

Review

"(...) 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

Product Description

This book offers a reassessment of the late Classical and early Hellenistic Athenian ephebeia, a state-organized and -funded system of mandatory national service for citizens in their nineteenth and twentieth years, consisting of garrison duty, military training, and civic education.

About the Author

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).