Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, a podcast bringing you queer history from around the world

and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. And today we're talking about the

ancient Greek military unit, the sacred band of Thebes. I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari warriorai Rang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional

owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and

present. We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this

podcast. Before we get started, we have some content warnings for this episode. This episode

contains an in-depth discussion of Greek sexual norms, which includes discussing Before we get started, we have some content warnings for this episode. This episode contains

an in-depth discussion of Greek sexual norms, which includes discussing pederasty,

a form of relationship between adults and adolescents. It also contains a lot of discussion

of battles and therefore of violence in war. It also contains a discussion of the

eximation, exhibition and mistreatment of human

remains, as well as mild sexual content and brief mentions of modern homophobia, including imprisonment.

If any of that doesn't sound like something that you want to listen to, please feel free to skip

this episode and listen to a different episode instead. So, as you may know, we often discuss our sources before we actually start telling you

about the thing we're talking about.

The infamous lit review?

The lit review, yeah.

Every podcast needs one per episode.

In this instance, I'm actually not really going to talk much about our sources at the

start of the episode.

I used a lot of little sources

for all of the different sections, so we'll mostly discuss them as they come up and talk about

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