ephebic

Boys could continue their education after secondary school by obtaining ephebic training.

In the fifth century BC, ephebic training began as a military education, followed by two years of military service.

The discontinuation of the upper ridge or hump initiates the ephebic substage.

Beneath Olympian brow and ephebic twist of hair, the small light-coloured eyes are as alert as those of some jungle cat.

That theme echoed in the ephebic oath that Ms. Goan and her classmates intoned at the end of commencement.

"In the Attic ephebic inscriptions, X. equals 'Xenoi'.

The Roman agoge was limited to males between the ages of 14 to 19 and was essentially ephebic in nature and organized by phyles (citizen tribes).

Occasionally, when the opportunity presents itself, he deliberately drops a delicious tidbit: Following this epicene epiphany of ephebic eroticism, Törless experiences a profound guilt reaction.

Ephebic Inscriptions An institution as to which our knowledge is mainly derived from inscriptions si the ephebic system at Athens.

The older one, Urania, is the daughter of Uranus, and inspires homosexual male (and more specifically, ephebic) love/eros; the younger is named Pandemos, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and all love for women comes from her.

He was also the first to point out the homosexual undertones of Batman and Robin: "Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. . . . He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident."

In later times there were added to the instructors in military exercises others who gave lectures on what we should now call arts and science subjects; so that in the Hellenistic and Roman times, when youths from all parts of the civilised world flocked to Athens as an intellectual centre, the ephebic system became a kind of cosmopolitan university.