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Hardcover The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom Book
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ISBN: 1501198017

ISBN13: 9781501198014

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

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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...

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