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Agoge
- "The agoge is what turns boys into men. Interfering would only weaken them, weaken Sparta."
- ―Myrrine[src]
Agoge was the Spartan way of rearing the youth into soldiers, beginning around the age of seven.
Locations
Located in the woods around the polis was the Spartan training territory, where youths willing to prove themselves came.[1]
Paidiskoi Camp in Lakonia was the camp where the paidiskoi remained as reserve members of the Spartan army during their agoge.[1]
During the Peloponnesian War the Spartan misthios Kassandra was tasked by the magistrate of Pitana to escort her son, Makarios, to the Agoge Camp North in Mount Taygetos for his training.[2]
Positions
Around that time Iatrokles served as the agoge master.[3]
Paidiskoi were the youths in the middle phase of the agoge, aged about 17-19, and served as reserve members of the Spartan army.[1]
Trivia
- The word is Greek αγωγή (agogí), meaning 'rearing, upbringing, education, training' and even 'discipline'.