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 by battles, ideological disput.
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
