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(ἀγωγή; agōgḗ). Agoge meant education and instruction in general and philosophical literature except in Sparta (Pl. Leg. 659d; Aristot. Eth. Nic. 10,9,1179b). Agoge (from ἄγειν; ágein; cf. Latin educare) was also the technical term for the comprehensive, centrally organized military education and socialization in Sparta (Pol. 1,32,1; Plut. Lyc. 22,1; Ages. 1,2). The detailed literary representations (Xen. Lac. 2-3; Plut. Lyc. 16-21; Mor. 237-9) are supplemented by dedicatory inscriptions from the 4th cent. B…