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The Battle of Chaereonea by Edmund Ollier (1882). Public DomainThe special forces of Ancient Greece, from the Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of the army of Alexander the Great, went down in history for their many heroic victories in battle.Thanks to Homer’s Iliad, the Myrmidons of Achilles are the most widely known army of…