The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
Scribner, June 2022. Paper Back. 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..... More