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The Sacred Band of Stepsons
The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by Janet Morris and based on the historical Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite strike force of paired lovers and friends that flourished during the fourth century BCE in ancient Greece, where sexuality was a behavior, not an identity. The Sacred Band of Stepsons series of fantasy novels and stories take place in a myth-like milieu that mixes historical places such as Nisibis, Mygdonia and Chaeronea; warriors such as Theagenes (commander of the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea); gods such as Enlil, Maat and Harmonia; philosophers such as Heraclitus and Thales; cavalry tactics and customs such as homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece with those that exist only in fantasy. The exploits of the Stepsons are chronicled in eleven short stories and nine novels (as of 2012). In a fantasy context, this series explores the difficulties facing war-fighters in personal relationships and the enduring questions surrounding the military's historical mixing of homosexuals and heterosexuals in combat.
==Evolution of the fictional Sacred Band of Stepsons==
The Sacred Band of Stepsons first appeared as shock troops in the Thieves' World series in 1981 with the story, "A Man and His God," a novella introducing Plato's Sacred Band concept of an elite homosexual war-band (Hieròs Lókhos) to readers.〔Edgeworth, Robert J. "Poverty of Invention: or, Mining the Classics with Janet Morris and Harry Turtledove" ''Extrapolation'' 31(1):15-23 (Kent State University Press). Spring 1990〕 "A Man and His God" was subsequently reprinted in one other anthology, ''Thirteen Short Fantasy Novels,'' edited by Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh and Charles;〔Asimov, Isaac; Greenberg, Martin H.; Waugh, Charles G.(eds.), ''Thirteen Short Fantasy Novels'' (1984), Greenwich House, also published as ''The Mammoth Book of Short Fantasy Novels'', edited by Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh (1986), Robinson Publishing〕 in the Thieves' World omnibus ''Sanctuary'', Robert Asprin, ed.;〔Asprin, ed., ''Sanctuary'' (1992) Science Fiction Book Club〕 and in Janet Morris's collection ''Tempus''.〔Morris, Janet, ''Tempus'', (1987) Baen〕
Because Thieves' World was a "shared universe" where many writers could use the same characters, others wrote stories featuring the Stepsons and their immortal commander, Tempus. Notable authors who wrote stories featuring characters from the Sacred Band of Stepsons include Chris Morris, Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey, Andrew Offutt, and C. J. Cherryh.
For nearly a decade, Janet Morris wrote stories and novels, some with Chris Morris, about Tempus and his Sacred Band. Morris's first Sacred Band of Stepsons novel, ''Beyond Sanctuary'', was the first "authorized" Thieves' World spin-off novel and was published in hardcover by Baen Books and then the Science Fiction Book Club. ''Beyond Sanctuary'' was reviewed by Library Journal〔Cassada, Jackie. "Beyond Sanctuary (Book)." Library Journal 110.11 (1985): 75.〕 and by Publishers Weekly.〔"Beyond sanctuary." Publishers Weekly May 3, 1985, Volume 217, Number 18, page 64〕 Next came "Beyond the Veil," also a Baen hardcover and Science Fiction Book Club Selection. ''Beyond the Veil'' was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews〔Beyond the Veil (Book), Kirkus Reviews, Copyright VNU Business Media, Inc. http://books.google.com/books?id=G1axAAAAIAAJ&sitesec=reviews〕 and by Fantasy Review.〔''Beyond The Veil'' (1986), reviewed by W.D. Stevens in Fantasy Review, March 1986, Volume 9, No.3, whole #89 (Florida Atlantic University)〕 The Baen hardcover and Science Fiction Book Club publication of ''Beyond Wizardwall'' completed publication of the trilogy. Three additional Stepsons novels and a short story per year followed until 1990, when the Morrises ceased production until 2010. In the latest Stepsons novels, ''The Sacred Band'' (2010), ''The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl'' (2012), the Stepsons rescue twenty-three couples of the historical Sacred Band of Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea and bring them, with their Greek Fates and gods, to Sanctuary and out again.
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