The Sacred Band

Description:

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.

subjects: Greece, history,  LGBTQ history,  Military history,  Homosexuality,  History,  Civilization

People: Pelopidas (d. 364 B.C),  Epaminondas (ca. 418-362 B.C),  Philip II King of Macedonia (382-336 B.C)

Places: Thebes (Greece)

Times: Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.,  4th century B.C.