The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
by James Romm
Greece, historyLGBTQ historyMilitary historyHomosexualityHistoryCivilization
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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Book data: Open Library