The Sacred Band

The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
About this book
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.
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL23530222W
Subjects
Greece, historyLGBTQ historyMilitary historyHomosexualityHistoryCivilization