Elite Army Composed of Gay Lovers: The Tivian Sacred Order in Ancient Greece
The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite military unit of 300 soldiers from the Greek city-state of Thebes, organized into 150 pairs of male lovers during the 4th century BCE. This specialized force played a decisive role in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE, a conflict that effectively ended Spartan hegemony over the … Read more