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Lovers and Soldiers | National Endowment for the Humanities

A group of Athenian aristocrats sits around at a banquet discussing a topic that was as important to the Greeks as it is to us: love.

Sacred Band of Thebes - Wikipedia

The Sacred Band of Thebes was a troop of select soldiers, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers which formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th ...

Is it true that in Sparta lovers were placed next to each other ... - Quora

During Thebes' alliance with Sparta to defeat Athens, the Theban soldiers noticed not only the professional training of the Spartiates, but also ...

Did an Army of Lovers Really Dominate Ancient Greece?

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite unit of the Theban army composed of 300 of their finest soldiers. But there was a twist - these soldiers were in ...

TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes. An elite Ancient Greek military ...

... army of lovers fighting harder to defend/fight for the one they loved. They even thought it was better to have a smaller penis, so as to not ...

Sacred Band of Thebes | Legacy Project Chicago

The Sacred Band of Thebes, a troop of soldiers that consisted of 150 ... army-of-300-gay-lovers · https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/03/19/the-sacred ...

Ancient Greece's Army of Lovers | The New Yorker

Daniel Mendelsohn writes about Thebes's Sacred Band, a feared ancient Greek army comprising a hundred and fifty male couples and undefeated ...

'An Army of Lovers' - The Sacred Band of Thebes | History Today

'An Army of Lovers' - The Sacred Band of Thebes. Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece. ... The question ...

Sacred Band of Thebes - World History Encyclopedia

... love alone; and women as well as men. (178d-179b). The dramatic date of Symposium, the setting of the story, is 416 BCE. If an army of lovers ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes: An Army of Lovers - YouTube

Dive into the untold story of the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite unit of 300 warriors bound by love and companionship.

Male Lovers: Military Generals - A Novel (Paperback)

In this fictional novel, I am trying to show the society of today how the ancient Greek society saw the love between two military men. The Greek ...

(Queer) Love and War: The Sacred Band of Thebes - Andrea Mariana

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an established military unit for about forty years from 378 – 338 BCE.[10] Its exact membership likely changed ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes: Elite Fighters… and Lovers!

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite fighting unit consisting of 300 Theban soldiers who were not only warriors but coupled lovers as well.

Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece - Simple Wikipedia

... military organization based on pairs of lovers: Homer's Nestor was not well skilled in ordering an army when he advised the Greeks to rank tribe and tribe ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes – The Elite Military Unit of Same Sex ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite force of shock troops in the Theban army, consisting of 150 paired male lovers that were famed in the classical world.

The Sacred Band of Thebes: Redefining Love and War - Medium

A fierce army unit of 150 male couples whose battlefield prowess was rivaled only by their devotion to each other.

The elite ancient Greek fighting force made up entirely of gay couples

... men who took young male lovers were expected to marry women and father children. ... soldiers believed to be the band's war dead. Amid the ...

Soldiers of Light and Love - UGA Press

Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South.

The Greeks - Homosexuality - PBS

Relief of Hoplite soldiers, (Acropolis museum, Greece) ... This 'Band of Lovers' became a formidable fighting force, with lover defending lover until death.

Wicked Lovers: Soldiers for Hire - Shayla Black

Ruthless Alpha former-military operatives and their fearless women combine to face of nail-biting danger in spicy, high-octane romantic suspenses.