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... 74 KB (8,590 words) - 01:19, 20 March 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,650 words) - 19:17, 1 February 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,108 words) - 20:00, 5 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (167 words) - 13:21, 8 September 2023 |
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... 2 KB (214 words) - 21:49, 26 October 2023 |
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... 5 KB (706 words) - 21:01, 17 March 2023 |
Timoclea (redirect from Timocleia of Thebes) 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... 12 KB (1,420 words) - 21:35, 9 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (2,007 words) - 20:44, 5 September 2022 |
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... 2 KB (248 words) - 12:31, 22 July 2023 |
Lochos (category Military units and formations of ancient Greece) 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... 5 KB (702 words) - 06:01, 23 July 2021 |
Hippeis (category Military ranks of Sparta) the Sacred Band of Thebes may have accompanied the great Theban cavalry commander Pelopidas to Pelopidas's fatal confrontation with Alexander of Pherae... 7 KB (891 words) - 04:38, 26 December 2023 |
their counterparts beside them, the elite Sacred Band of Thebes under the command of Gorgidas. This "show of contempt" stops the advancing Spartan forces... 264 bytes (1,617 words) - 12:02, 28 August 2022 |
Chaeronea (category Duchy of Athens) 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... 7 KB (758 words) - 14:00, 13 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (851 words) - 23:26, 28 April 2024 |
Ancient Greece (redirect from History of Ancient Greece) 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... 79 KB (9,320 words) - 20:57, 25 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (241 words) - 13:06, 25 February 2024 |
their counterparts beside them, the elite Sacred Band of Thebes under the command of Gorgidas. This "show of contempt" stops the advancing Spartan forces... 3 KB (371 words) - 14:57, 7 May 2022 |
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... 2 KB (259 words) - 23:18, 7 January 2024 |
Ancient Greek architecture (redirect from Architecture of Greece) 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... 70 KB (8,425 words) - 13:48, 16 April 2024 |
Paideia (category Culture of ancient Greece) paedeia; Greek: παιδεία) referred to the rearing and education of the ideal member of the ancient Greek polis or state. These educational ideals later... 7 KB (692 words) - 03:49, 21 March 2024 |
Greece in the Roman era (redirect from History of Roman Greece) Roman era describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited... 14 KB (1,911 words) - 02:11, 22 April 2024 |
Pederasty in ancient Greece (redirect from Philosophy of pederasty) Platonic love Prostitution in ancient Greece Sacred Band of Thebes Sexuality in ancient Rome The Sacred Band of Stepsons, fiction Wakashū The seven functions... 79 KB (10,107 words) - 03:18, 28 April 2024 |
several times. During the same period, a combination of sacred precincts including the temples of Athena Polias, Poseidon, Erechtheus, Cecrops, Herse,... 47 KB (4,703 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2024 |