The Sacred Band

Name: The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
ISBN: 9781501198014

Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

James Romm

2021·288 pages·Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

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.

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The Sacred Band

Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

James Romm

Year

2021

Pages

288

Type

Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

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