The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερός Λόχος, Hierós Lókhos) was a troop of select soldiers. According to some ancient Greek claims, 150 pairs...

ended Spartan hegemony at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, with the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite military unit of male lovers celebrated as instrumental...

that he borrowed the name of the Sacred Band of Thebes. In Focșani, after the completion of the training of the Sacred Band's members, oath taking ceremony...

such regiment as the core of their entire army. They attributed this group called the Sacred Band of Thebes for making Thebes the most powerful city-state...

units: Sacred Band of Thebes Sacred Band of Carthage Sacred Band (1821), of the Greek War of Independence Cretan Sacred Band during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869...

title of which in turn alludes to the Sacred Band of Thebes. The founding members, who had all worked together in a band called Barbie, were Alexander Bard...

was the first known Theban military leader of the Sacred Band of Thebes around 378 BC. Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas mentions Gorgidas for the first...

commander of the Sacred Band of Thebes, who died "for the liberty of Greece" at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, defeated by Alexander's father Philip of Macedon...

but the "Sacred Band" or any other elite unit is not mentioned in any surviving accounts of these wars. Sacred Band of Thebes Military of Carthage Plutarch...

The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by Janet Morris and based on the historical Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite strike...

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adulthood, the most famous example being the Sacred Band of Thebes, composed of elite soldiers in pairs of male lovers in the 4th century BCE. Aristotle...

essentially that of "war-band", a body of armed men. This translation has been used traditionally, e.g. for the Sacred Band of Thebes. Evolving as it did...

Colonel Tsigantes, renamed the unit to "Sacred Band" after the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Sacred Band of the Greek Revolution, and successfully applied...

their counterparts beside them, the elite Sacred Band of Thebes under the command of Gorgidas. This "show of contempt" stops the advancing Spartan forces...

the Sacred Band of Thebes may have accompanied the great Theban cavalry commander Pelopidas to Pelopidas's fatal confrontation with Alexander of Pherae...

battle the elite unit of Theban soldiers known as the Sacred Band of Thebes was wiped out completely. In 1818, the so-called Lion of Chaeronea, a nearly...

communication. The secret Order was named for the 338 BC battle where the Sacred Band of Thebes was ultimately defeated. In the 1860s, the German lawyer Karl Heinrich...

returned to Paris by way of Constantinople. The allusions from Classical Antiquity included in the speech are to the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Persian Immortals—elite...

defeated by Thebes at the Battle of Mantinea. In the aftermath of Mantinea, none of the major Greek states were able to dominate. Though Thebes had won the...

Epaminondas, and lived with Pammenes, who was an enthusiastic advocate of the Sacred Band of Thebes. In 364 BC, Philip returned to Macedon. In 359 BC, Philip's other...

an expedition to Locris, Pelopidas sets out with the Sacred Band of Thebes and a small force of cavalry, intending to seize the city while it is unguarded...

who led Thebes to hegemonic status over Greece in the middle of the 4th century BC ("Theban hegemony"). Battle of Leuctra Sacred Band of Thebes John Van...

Theban hegemony which had already been in decline. Boeotian War Sacred Band of Thebes Spartan hegemony John Buckler, The Theban Hegemony 371-362, 1980...

column. At this point the Theban left hit the Spartan right with the Sacred Band of Thebes, led by Pelopidas, at its head. The decisive engagement was then...

their counterparts beside them, the elite Sacred Band of Thebes under the command of Gorgidas. This "show of contempt" stops the advancing Spartan forces...

under the open sky in the temenos or sacred precinct, often directly before the temple. Temples served as the location of a cult image and as a storage place...

pirate bands which coalesced due to the collapse, and diverse in origin, like sailors, workers, or mercenaries, coming from ethnicities like those of the...

seizure of the citadel of Cadmea in 382 BC, in violation of the Peace of Antalcidas in place then. The Sacred Band of Thebes was stationed in Cadmea...

paedeia; Greek: παιδεία) referred to the rearing and education of the ideal member of the ancient Greek polis or state. These educational ideals later...