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Sign in. The Sacred Band. The story of the Sacred Band, an elite man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen.

At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world. The tale begins in BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women's clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might.

To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros , sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years.

Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in —some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts "in fluent, accessible prose" The Wall Street Journal the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.

After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in —some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts "in fluent, accessible prose" The Wall Street Journal the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.

Languages English. From classicist James Romm comes a "striking James Romm - Author. Why is availability limited? Take a look at what's being checked out right now. Sign in Cancel. Add a card. The Theban Band's artwork is renowned due to its high quality, as well as its visibility and accessibility to fandom outsiders, has frequently been referenced and shown off outside of fandom, causing some tension due to this breach of the fourth wall - although reactions from actors were largely positive.

Manips by The Theban Band have also appeared in, or been used as inspiration for, other fannish works. Over the years, the Theban Band created slashy photo manipulations in a lot of fandoms , but the biggest ones were The X-Files and Lord of the Rings. Some of their artwork was for zines in several fandoms and when the Theban Band published the two volumes of The OaT Zine , the only Once a Thief zine of the fandom, they completely illustrated them with their own manips.

They also created fanfiction covers for several X-Files slash stories. In addition to creating fanart , ned and leny were active as archivists in both of their main fandoms. Once a Thief was to some degree an offshoot of the X-Files slash fandom because Nick Lea , who played Krycek on The X-Files, starred in both shows and ended up playing one half of an OTP slash pairing in either incarnation.

When the Theban Band first put their slash art site on the net, some people still felt conflicted about this kind of fanart because the idea of putting the heads of actors on other bodies to create an erotically charged picture was for some fans dangerously close to RPF , which was still a big taboo in media fandom.

The standard disclaimer on the page reflected and addressed these concerns:. The Theban Band used Photoshop [7] for creating their manips and the pictures of the bodies came from all sorts of places; gay sites, scans from magazines or what other people sent to them. When they wanted to do a picture of Krycek kissing, they would shift through hundreds of photos to get a particular angle and then work with that. Especially striking were the fantasy pictures that showed the characters with wings , horns, or as centaurs or merpeople.

The Theban Band had a winged Krycek as early as , and in the winged Mulder and Krycek manips were part of the fantasy section of the site where they shared space with other hybrids. The high quality and high visibility of the Theban Band manips often turned them involuntarily into slash fandom's face to the outside world.

When some journalist or talk show host or just a regular netizen stumbled upon the slash phenomenon and needed examples to explain slash or wanted to mock it, they often used Theban Band artwork; sometimes with, sometimes without permission.

Other people just wanted to show off the gorgeous pictures they found on the internet. The result was the same - the manips were linked all over the place and caused ned and leny hotlinking problems.

Sometimes people take the manips to use them in their fanvids [11] or to create slideshows out of them. Cybersocket Web Magazine, a nationwide gay publication in the U. One thing that is certainly true is that the artwork is accessible to fandom outsiders.

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