Quote - The Sacred Band was Theban. It wasn't formed until about 100 years after the Battle of Plataea.  Their entire reason for existance was to fight to the death against the Spartans.

 

Yes, and when Thebes defeated Sparta in battle -- a feat previously thought by many to be impossible -- the event came as a shock to an exiled Athenian who was living in Sparta at the time -- a retired former general and a man of letters named Xenophon.

Of course, later on Alexander professed his admiration for the bravery of the Sacred Band after he had killed all of them.  And he then further demostrated his admiration for the courage of the Thebans by sacking, burning, and razing their city to the ground -- destroying it utterly as an example to others who might be so foolish as to oppose him.  Alexander also mocked the Spartans: but he did not destroy them.

I wonder how all of that would look in CG?

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