ephebe

It provided government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" in a government intending, to "transmit this City not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us," to borrow the words of Athens's Ephebic Oath.

In her study of women's autobiographies, Graziella Parati clearly states that holding the value that youth belongs to the father or to an almost ephebic androgynous hero:

Exceptions are the image of the ephebic Ganymede in Purg.

First seen sporting stubble and a flannel shirt and expertly wielding an ax in the snow-covered camp, Gillet's Roger is a decidedly butcher character than the pretty, ephebic, cross-dressing fifth-century shepherd he portrayed in Rohmer's film.

Maguire/Peter's idealizing combination of ephebic adolescence with phallic muscularity, sensitivity and agility with strength and power, attains that ideality in the glow of our necessarily invisible look, as the spectacle of a (sensitive-yet- powerful) masculinity that he himself first assumes, mirror stage-like, by encountering it, precisely, as spectacle (figure 1).

Harris 2004, 39) furthermore points to the Ephebic Oath, which seems to demand of Athenian citizens a critical position with respect to the law; she regards (2008, 82) Antigone's position throughout the play in the context of the euthyna.

Writing before the popularization of the term "bildungsroman" in Anglophone literary criticism, he concludes his discussion of "ephebic literature" by suggesting that it should be "recognized as a class by itself" (589).

Palumbo, Bernardino, 2013b, << A Baron, Some Guides, and a Few Ephebic Boys : Cultural Intimacy, Sexuality, and Heritage in Sicily >>.

This first passage represents Achilles' ephebic body as gender-ambiguous: although he occupies himself with suitably proto-heroic pursuits such as hunting, by spotlighting his smooth-faced beauty, Statius at once destabilises Achilles' claim to heroic stature by constructing him as a potential object of erotic amor.