The Sacred Band of Thebes

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Sacred Band of Thebes (Ancient Greek: Ἱερὸς Λόχος, Hieròs Lókhos) 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 century BC. Its predominance began with its crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC. It was annihilated by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.

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0:00.0	Okay, but then you just like put it right back down again.
0:05.0	I don't. Yeah, right. Yes. Okay. Yeah. But then why'd you lift it in the first place?
0:09.0	Because it would make you stronger. That's the whole point.
0:13.0	I do not understand. Okay. That's that's evident.
0:17.0	Hey, Cecil, what's up with all the, uh, Sparks?
0:22.0	Hey, guys, hey, you won't believe it. Ely actually chose a cool topic this week.
0:27.0	Wait, really? Yeah, yeah, sacred badathieves. Yeah, we're, they were totally badass army in
0:33.6	Greece. So just it's going to be awesome. Sacred band of thieves. I feel like that's,
0:40.0	that's familiar. So yeah, yeah, it should be. Yeah, they were, they're in a bunch of battles and
0:45.0	stuff. I'm really Google this. I'm going to, I'm going to Google this. Something is not. Yeah, look it
0:49.0	up right here. So Eli asked me to help him get ready for some pre episode roleplay. So I started
0:54.8	working on the forge. I got spears helmets. It's going to be awesome. Noah, Noah, he, uh, you guys might
1:02.6	want to take a look at this. Oh, yeah, Cecil, um, I think, uh, I think Eli probably wasn't focused on,
1:12.6	on the battle parts. Did you read it? Well, it doesn't, it doesn't matter whatever, guys. Hey,
1:16.6	Eli, Eli, it's ready. Eli. Finally. And he's wearing a silk pathrobe. I made a spear and
1:24.9	everything. All right. Now be gentle at first because I told you this was not war stuff. I made a
1:30.6	spear. I mean, I'll try it.
1:46.7	Hello and welcome to Citation needed the podcast where we choose to subject read a single article about
1:58.2	it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now.
2:02.6	I'm Noah and I'll be driving back the hordes of ignorance tonight, but I'll need some pretty
2:06.3	burly men to lock arms with first up two men who break the Kinsey scale by perversion and wait
2:11.1	respectively Eli and Tom. All right. Labels are for milk jugs and so are Dicks.
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