ephebic

• “A few that weren't are here, ephebic abstractions that don't do him credit.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Major Actor, Minor Artist

• “Robin is a handsome ephebic adolescent boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Grand Theft Childhood

• ““The true and exact text of the Athenian ephebic oath is no longer in doubt.”

  Athenian Ephebic Oath

• “Political regulations established by the rulers are called thesmoi in the ephebic oath (Tod, No. 204. 11-14); in Aristophanes (Birds 331) and in”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Compare the Athenian ephebic oath with the vows of chivalry.”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “Motor specialties requiring exactness and grace like piano-playing, drawing, writing, pronunciation of a foreign tongue, dancing, acting, singing, and a host of virtuosities, must be well begun before the relative arrest of accessory growth at the dawn of the ephebic regeneration and before its great afflux of strength.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “Secondly and more clearly, men tend to vent their ephebic calentures more in the field of action.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “It is, I believe, high time that ephebic literature should be recognized as a class by itself, and have a place of its own in the history of letters and in criticism.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “Nature prompts to a modest reticence for which the deflowerers of all ephebic naiveté should have some respect.”

  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene

• “In a queer reading of the story, in fact, we can trace homoerotic undercurrents beyond the young men's sharing of clothes and kisses: David's nature-boy-musician character resonates with the archetypes of Tammuz, Adonis, Orpheus; as ephebic armour-bearer to brooding Saul, he recalls Patroklus's relationship to Akhilleos; as servile youth to an autocratic overlord, we might even see a hint of Zeus's houseboy Gaymede; even the phraseology of the text focuses us on the physical act of David's hand, the young man's fingers gently strumming this … instrument.”

  Notes From The Geek Show

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