Lutadores MMA — Agoge

Ancient Spartan education and training regimen

The agoge was the training program prerequisite for Spartiate (citizen) status. Spartiate-class boys entered it at age seven and would stop being a student of the agoge at age 21. It was considered violent by the standards of the day and was sometimes fatal. Those who survived to the final stage would have the chance to be selected into the Crypteia.