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The Sacred Band

James Romm · 2021

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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.

Book details

Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
Scribner
Editions
4
Pages
288
ISBN
9781501198014

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