The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
by James Romm
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Romm's dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
Greece, historyLGBTQ historyMilitary historyHomosexualityHistoryCivilization