Examples of agoge in the following topics:
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- Boys lived in communal messes and, according to Xenophon, whose sons attended the agoge, the boys were fed "just the right amount for them never to become sluggish through being too full, while also giving them a taste of what it is not to have enough."
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- Boys who underwent training lived
in communal messes and, according to Xenophon, whose sons attended the agoge, the boys were
fed "just the right amount for them never to become sluggish through being
too full, while also giving them a taste of what it is not to have
enough."