Epaminondas defending Pelopidas and the Sacred Band, in an illustration by William Rainey (1910). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In another article, we explained how, in the year 318 BCE, ...

An architectural dig on an ancient Greek battlefield, returned to in 1880, unearthed a surprising find: a mass grave of Theban soldiers carefully and deliberately buried in pairs. Make that couples.

Bard College classics professor Romm (Dying Every Day) delivers a brisk account of the city-state of Thebes focused on the Sacred Band, an elite fighting force made up of 150 “male couples, stationed ...

I wanted something that embodied our history and relationships. The name is based on the Sacred Band of Thebes. As Plutarch wrote about this elite force: “…a band cemented by friendship, grounded upon ...

Readers' Favorite announces the review of the Fiction - Historical - Event/Era book "The Sacred Band of Thebes" by Glenn Rabney and Bart Baker, currently available at . Readers' Favorite is one of the ...

The names of Gorgidas and Pammenes are little known even to readers familiar with ancient Greece. But in 378 B.C., these leaders of the city of Thebes created an institution that would inspire the ...

The city of Thebes, in central Greece, has often been marginalized if not forgotten, both in antiquity and in modern times. Though it produced at least one wonderful poet (Pindar) and one stellar ...

Discover the untold saga of the world's greatest military fighting force, the Sacred Band of Thebes, made up of 150 pairs of male lovers.