HISB10H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Perioeci, Debt Bondage, Peisistratos
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Hisb10 key terms: midterm 2 chapters 4-6. Chapter 4: sparta: ephebe y originally an ephebe was a boy who had reached the age of puberty. Beginning in the late fourth century bc all athenian boys who were in their eighteenth year had to undergo two years of military training called the ephebia. The boys spent the first year in athens under the guidance of state-employed military instructors and the second year as part of the garrisons of several frontier forts. Overseer, magistrates, an office found in sparta and in other dorian states. In sparta a board of five ephors was elected annually by the assembly; the senior ephor gave his name to the year. The ephors had great power in the spartan state, including general control over the king s conduct: gerousia y the council of elders (from geron old man ). Term used at sparta and in other poleis for the aristocratic council.
