Art style: Cinematic Neo-Noir.
A brutal Agoge flogging ritual at an altar of rough stone. Young Spartan trainees stand in a grim semicircle while one youth endures the whip, his back rigid, refusing to cry out. Cold overcast light falls flat across the scene. Weathered stone columns frame the composition. Wide dramatic shot. The mood is harsh, ceremonial, and merciless. Palette of ashen grey stone, pale bruised flesh, and dull crimson accents under a bleak sky.
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FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Cinematic Neo-Noir" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Cinematic Neo-Noir". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Cinematic Neo-Noir" idiom, not in any other medium.
