The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

by James Romm

Book Overview

From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep 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.

The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501198017
• ISBN13: 9781501198014
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"