The Sacred Band
Author: Romm, James
ISBN: 9781501198014
RM224.32
Publisher,Scribner
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 298
A classicist delves 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. 35,000 first printing. Illustrations.
