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The Greek reads something closer to, "A lover, in the presence of his darling boy (παιδικῶν - it's an idiomatic use of παιδικός - adj. meaning 'boyish' but see the LSJ entry, A.III.2 for the substantive use meaning something like 'boyfriend' or 'darling')... 11/19
...would do anything rather than think himself to have been taken as a coward by his darling." To be clear, both 'lover' and 'darling' here are explicitly male, Greek being one of those languages with clear grammatical genders. 12/19
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Athenaeus then provides the Sacred Band of Thebes (he thinks it was founded by Epaminondas, not Gorgidas) as an example of this principle in action. 13/19
Now it is true none of these sources are contemporary to the band itself; Plutarch is early second century, Polyaenus is mid/late-second century and Athenaeus is late-second/early-third century. But there's no alternative tradition here. 14/19
So the original tweet is simply wrong in a lazy, unambiguous way. There are interesting debates to be had over other questions, like if Achilles&Patroclus were intended to be lovers in the text of the Iliad, or the details of Greek attitudes towards homosexuality. 15/19
But this isn't one of those. Honestly, given how limited & often contradictory ancient source material is, how difficult archaeological evidence can be, it is a real challenge to manage to be decisively wrong on a point where there is no uncertainty. Mission accomplished? 16/19
So, summing up: it is the explicit - and to my knowledge unanimous - testimony of the sources that the Sacred Band did in fact consist of 150 matched pairs of male lovers. 17/19
And also, on no less authority than Philip II, King of the Macedonians, anyone who thinks that fact was disgraceful - presumably understood to include @pegobry - can die in a fire (Plut. Pelop. 18.5)
(He actually says ἀπόλοιντο κακῶς, "Let them perish horribly") 18/19
If you want to read more about the Sacred Band, @JamesRomm has literally *just* written a book about them. I haven't had a chance to read it (yet!!), but Romm won't steer you wrong, so give it a read.
end/19https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sacred-Band/James-Romm/9781501198014 …
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