The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom - Paperback
by James Romm
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781501198021ISBN-10:1501198025UPC:9781501198021Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Military, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:Greece, AncientSize:8.35 x 5.62 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC4256ZPZY
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
From classicist James Romm comes a "striking...fascinating" (Booklist) 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 time, 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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781501198021ISBN-10:1501198025UPC:9781501198021Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Military, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:Greece, AncientSize:8.35 x 5.62 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC4256ZPZY
James Romm is an author, reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, New York. His reviews and essays appear regularly in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Review of Books. He currently oversees the ambitious Ancient Lives series recently launched by Yale University Press.
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