This practice involved the gift of a red cloak once per year, and another component of this practice involved digging up reeds by hand and making beds out of them. The overseer for this practice was called the paidonomos, and sections of it included paides, paidiskoi, and hebontes. Participants in this practice were purpose
This practice involved the gift of a red cloak once per year, and another component of this practice involved digging up reeds by hand and making beds out of them. The overseer for this practice was called the paidonomos, and sections of it included paides, paidiskoi, and hebontes. Participants in this practice were purposefully (*) under-fed to encourage stealing without being caught, and this practice was applicable between the ages of seven and twenty-nine. Supposedly established by Lycurgus, for 10 points, identify this mandatory practice in ancient Sparta.
This practice involved the gift of a red cloak once per year, and another component of this practice involved digging up reeds by hand and making beds out of them.
agoge [accept "Spartan training regimen for their youth"]