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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.