Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
Plutarch himself appears to doubt the veracity of these accounts.  It is to be doubted if Pammenes actually organized military units along homosexual lines.<ref>David Leitao, 'The legend of the Theban Band', in M. Craven Nussbaum and J. Sihvola The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome, Chicago University Press (2002), pages 149</ref> Eventually the Greek city-states joined Pammenes' views on the most effective order of unit formation. The practice soon proliferated. City-states that had originally frowned upon the idea reversed opinions on the basis of their own experiences.