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Sacred Band

Theban military corps

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Alexander the Great

  • Alexander the Great
    In Alexander the Great: Life

    …personal courage in breaking the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite military corps composed of 150 pairs of lovers. A year later Philip divorced Olympias, and, after a quarrel at a feast held to celebrate his father’s new marriage, Alexander and his mother fled to Epirus, and Alexander later went…

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Battle of Chaeronea

  • Lion of Chaeronea
    In Battle of Chaeronea

    …the Thebans and their elite Sacred Band. The Macedonian phalanx occupied the centre, facing the allied Greek infantry. Philip took positions on the right, across from the Athenians.

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Pelopidas

  • In Pelopidas

    …was the leader of the Sacred Band, a selected infantry body of 300, which routed a large Spartan force at Tegyra (near Orchomenus, Boeotia) in 375 and distinguished itself in the defeat of Sparta at the decisive battle of Leuctra (371).

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