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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. By Peter Londey, Honorary Lecturer in History, Australian National University In 1880, in the village of Chaironeia in central Greece, Greek archaeologists made a remarkable find: a largely undisturbed mass grave of 254 ancient soldiers, some of whom are buried arm in arm.
In 1880, in the village of Chaironeia in central Greece, Greek archaeologists made a remarkable find: a largely undisturbed mass grave of 254 ancient soldiers, some of whom are buried arm in arm. The men in this grave were clearly a special group, and it has generally been assumed that they were the dead of the Theban Sacred Band (hieros lochos) – an elite fighting unit made up of 150 pairs of male lovers, fighting side by side.
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