Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Sacred BandCondition: NewSubtitle: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek FreedomISBN-10: 1501198025EAN: 9781501198021ISBN: 9781501198021Publisher: ScribnerFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/04/2022Description: 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. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world. The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women’s clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band recounts “in fluent, accessible prose” (The Wall Street Journal) the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 213mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 286gAuthor: James RommGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Sacred Band
Title: The Sacred Band
Subtitle: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
ISBN-10: 1501198025
EAN: 9781501198021
ISBN: 9781501198021
Release Date: 08/04/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Sacred Band : Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Lgbt Studies / General, Military / Ancient, Ancient / Greece, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece)
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: James Romm
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
