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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Love's Warriors (August 382-January 378 BC)
• 2. Boeotia Rising (378-375 BC, plus background 400-382 BC)
• 3. Philosophers in Arms (375-June 371 BC)
• 4. Otototoi! (July 371-370 BC)
• 5. Three Free Cities (370-367 BC)
• 6. Death in Thessaly (367-364 BC)
• 7. Death in Arcadia (364-359 BC)
• 8. Sacred Wars (358-335 BC).

Author/Creator:

Romm, James S. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Sacred band: three hundred Theban lovers fighting to save Greek freedom [by Romm, J.S.]

Subjects:

Homosexuality — Greece — History

Greece — History — Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.

Greece — History — Boeotian War, 378-375 B.C.

Greece — History — Third Sacred War, 355-346 B.C.

Greece — History, Military

Thebes (Greece) — History

Greece — Civilization — To 146 B.C.

General Notes:

Map on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DF231.2 .R66 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781501198038 (electronic bk.)
1501198033 (electronic bk.)
9781501198014 [Invalid]
1501198017 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1251443443

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6610827 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302199224