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Coming-of-Age Rites (Ephebeia / Toga Virilis)

Rites marking a youth's passage to adult citizen status — the Athenian ephebic enrollment and oath, and the Roman assumption of the toga virilis.

How it traveled

  1. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
    explains
  2. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
    explains

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Constitution of the Lacedaimonians · Xenophon

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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Moderate

Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Deipnosophistae · Athenaeus of Naucratis

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