Ephebe (sculpture)

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The Agrigento Ephebe, a "Severe Style" Greek sculpture of the 5th century BCE in the museum of Agrigento, Sicily
The Agrigento Ephebe, a "Severe Style" Greek sculpture of the 5th century BCE in the museum of Agrigento, Sicily
Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis museum in Athens
Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis museum in Athens
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For other uses, see Ephebos (disambiguation).

In Ancient Greek sculpture, an Ephebe is a sculptural type depicting a nude ephebos. (Archaic examples of the type are also often known as the kouros type, or kouroi in the plural.)

This typological name often occurs in the form "The X Ephebe", where X is the collection to which the object belongs or belonged, or the site on which it was found (eg the Agrigento Ephebe).

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