Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 An Aeschinean Ephebeia ? 2.1 The Controversy 2.2 Origin of Ephebos 2.3 Training before Chaeronea? 2.4 Aeschines' Peripoleia 2.5 Aeschines without the Ephebeia 3 The Creation of the Ephebeia 3.1 The Law of Epicrates 3.2 Reaction to Chaeronea? 3.

3 The Defense of Attica 3.4 The Destruction of Thebes 3.5 Lycurgus and the Ephebeia 4 The Defenders of Athens 4.1 Kosmetes and Sophronistes 4.2 Strategoi and Peripolarchoi 4.3 Eutaxia : Discipline in the Ephebeia 4.4 Training Ephebes 4.5 Espirit De Corps 5 Ephebes and the Ephebeia 5.

1 Citizen Participation 5.2 Exemptions and Citizenship 5.3 The Motivation to Serve 5.4 The Bad Ephebe 5.5 Persuasion or Coercion? 5.6 Honors during Service 5.7 Honors after Service 6 Educating Ephebes 6.1 The Need for an Ephebic Paideia 6.

2 Sophrosyne in the Ephebeia 6.3 Patriotism, Glory, and Self-Sacrifice 6.4 Festival Participation 6.5 Ephebes as Liminal Figures? 7 Epilogue: After Lycurgus Catalogue Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Inscriptions Index of Literary Sources.