Sacred Band
Sacred Band 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…
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Sacred Band
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, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world.
To counter the Spartans, this Disguised in women's clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might.
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