Classical Studies 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 90: Ephebos, Chariot Racing, Bsc Young Boys

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Bernd Steinbock

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An important institution in greek life for male citizens was the gymnasium. The word is derived from the greek word gymnos meaning naked implying that naked exercise was customary. The academy and the lyceum, for ever associated with the teachings of plato and. Aristotle, were in the rst place gymnasia adjacent to which the philosophers had established their schools. That is a reminder of the compelling interest of the state in the physical well being and development of its male citizens. In athens youths aged between eighteen and twenty, known as epheboi, underwent special military training in two parts. First year the spent at the military barracks in the piraeus and the second year as apprentice hoplites in the colonies. At sparta, naked exercises were institutionalized in a festival called the. Gymnopaediae involving young boys and attended b the spartan king.