epheboi

It was also where the epheboi (male youths) as well as the paides (boys) received their physical and intellectual education.

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Near the Theater Report 5 2003

Compulsory military training for all youth (epheboi) was established.

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After the Persian war, when the dress and manners of the Ionians had undergone a change, it became the custom to cut off the long hair of the boys on their attaining the age of epheboi, and devote it as an offering to a god, for instance, to the Delphic Apollo or some local river-god.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life