A group of 150 male-male pairs, the Sacred Band was an elite fighting unit of this city of Oedipus
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one of the oldest city-states in central Greecehome of Oedipus,... [DOC] [TLE] Heroines of Classical Greece - Timeline | Facebook [PAR] The Sacred Band was formed by the city fathers of Thebes in 379 BC as an elite 
fighting unit.