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The Sacred BandThe Sacred Band

The Sacred Band

Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom

James Romm

3.0(1)on Hardcover

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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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OL Work ID
OL23530222W

Subjects

Greece, historyLGBTQ historyMilitary historyHomosexualityHistoryCivilization

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