The Sacred Band -Three

This week, on Tales we return to Thebes one last time to discuss what happens when others even the field, the life and death or our two heroes, a young man named Philip - and a giant lion..

This is part three of a three parter.

Content Warnings: Battlefield injury and death, some depictions towards the end are quite graphic. Political violence, slavery and hostage taking. Assassination. Suicide-adjacent fatalism. Mass burial. Discussion of LGBTQI+ history not that THAT one should ever need to be a trigger warning - but there you go…Yes I got hate mail a few weeks back, so let’s throw it in there…

and back to the actual nasty stuff, discussion of Authoritarianism, tyranny and mass killing.

Sources Include:James Romm’s ‘The Sacred Band’Plutarch’s ‘Lives…’

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