Sacred Band : Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom ...
Simon & Schuster
The Sacred BandThree Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom\nAuthor(s): James Romm\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon & Schuster, United States\nImprint: Scribner\nISBN-13: 9781501198021, 978-1501198021\nSynopsis\nFrom classicist James Romm comes a strikingfascinating (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Greats destruction of Thebesand the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.\n\nThe 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 by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world.\nThe tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in womens clothing.
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