300 Watchers.
So It's official.
Three Hundred Watchers!
Many thanks to the last four people on board. I remember nearly fainting when we hit 100. *iz ded*
So, as promised we have two challenges on the board.
Ides of March - Interpret how you will. Think deceit, tyranny, power struggle, assassination, soothsayers, (Cassandra did not get the kicking around she deserved in my opinion. Voldemort/Trelawney anyone?
and
"An Army of Lovers" - again, interpret how you will. Make it a war story, or a post war story, or something completely different.
The Sacred Band of Thebes, or Theban Band, was a battalion composed entirely of friends and lovers. This military unit, consisting of 150 male couples, was based on the belief that men fighting alongside their lovers would die rather than shame one another. The references to it in later Greek literature are very numerous, and there seems no reason to doubt the general truth of the traditions concerning its formation and its complete annihilation by Philip of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Geat, at the battle of Chaeronea.
With the battle done, and Philip victorious, the Sacred Band were buried on the spot where they had fallen. A soldier himself, Philip, respected valiant opponents, and offered no objection to the Thebans raising a monument in honour of the Sacred Band close by the site of their common grave.
According to Aristotle lovers plighted their faith at Iolaus's (Hercules lover) tomb thus leading to the reference to the Sacred Band.
While some accounts of the Band's demise say the entire complement "fought and died where they stood", archaeological evidence supports the claim that some were taken alive. Excavations have revealed 254 bodies, arranged in "seven soldierly rows". To this day, the bodies remain in their grave.
But you don't HAVE to write for the challenges, just post your lovely stuff anyway. You don't have to ask, and I don't mind if you are cross posting, just as long as it suits the comm.
Thank you, all the watchers!!
Three Hundred Watchers!
Many thanks to the last four people on board. I remember nearly fainting when we hit 100. *iz ded*
So, as promised we have two challenges on the board.
Ides of March - Interpret how you will. Think deceit, tyranny, power struggle, assassination, soothsayers, (Cassandra did not get the kicking around she deserved in my opinion. Voldemort/Trelawney anyone?
and
"An Army of Lovers" - again, interpret how you will. Make it a war story, or a post war story, or something completely different.
The Sacred Band of Thebes, or Theban Band, was a battalion composed entirely of friends and lovers. This military unit, consisting of 150 male couples, was based on the belief that men fighting alongside their lovers would die rather than shame one another. The references to it in later Greek literature are very numerous, and there seems no reason to doubt the general truth of the traditions concerning its formation and its complete annihilation by Philip of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Geat, at the battle of Chaeronea.
With the battle done, and Philip victorious, the Sacred Band were buried on the spot where they had fallen. A soldier himself, Philip, respected valiant opponents, and offered no objection to the Thebans raising a monument in honour of the Sacred Band close by the site of their common grave.
According to Aristotle lovers plighted their faith at Iolaus's (Hercules lover) tomb thus leading to the reference to the Sacred Band.
While some accounts of the Band's demise say the entire complement "fought and died where they stood", archaeological evidence supports the claim that some were taken alive. Excavations have revealed 254 bodies, arranged in "seven soldierly rows". To this day, the bodies remain in their grave.
But you don't HAVE to write for the challenges, just post your lovely stuff anyway. You don't have to ask, and I don't mind if you are cross posting, just as long as it suits the comm.
Thank you, all the watchers!!