You would go on military training perhaps together.

也可能一起接受军事训练
You would also engage in sports together,

他们将一起参与体育竞技
and you would develop a camaraderie because you were expected then

建立同袍之谊因为他们
to be the fighting force for your city, your city-state.

将一起为他们的城邦而战斗
So the ephebate, or the ephebeia,

所以 ephebate或者说ephebeia
was this institution that every boy had to go through

是每个男孩成为一个合格的公民
in order then to be a full citizen of a city.

所必须参与的活动
You have this political structure in your handout.

你们讲义中还列有这些政治组织结构
The first political structure is the demos.

第一层政治结构是demos
Demos just means the "People,"

demos的意思是人民
it's just a Greek word for "The people."

希腊语中的人民大众
But it actually referred more politically to all of the male citizens,

但其政治意义实指男性公民