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20 Aug 338 BC father defeats the at and weeps for their bravery. We invoke their devotion and courage in our own hearts, that we may become the New Sacred Band https://t.co/v68aK5WmSK

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2021-08-21

Happy Pride Month!
Reminder that Queer people exist and have existed since the dawn of time.
I doodled two members of the Sacred Band of Thebes on the eve of the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC). The Band was a Greek elite military force composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.

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2020-06-02

Athens and several other prestigious city-states attempted to resist the rise of Philip II's Macedonia, which they rightly saw as a threat to their sovereignty. Yet a decisive defeat against Philip’s forces at Chaeronea in 338 BC emphatically ended their fight.

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2019-11-10

Athens and several other prestigious city-states attempted to resist the rise of Philip II's Macedonia, which they rightly saw as a threat to their sovereignty; yet a decisive defeat against Philip’s forces at Chaeronea in 338 BC emphatically ended their fight

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2019-07-24