Title: The Sacred Band
Subtitle: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
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
Places: Thebes (Greece)
People: Pelopidas (d. 364 B.C), Epaminondas (ca. 418-362 B.C), Philip II King of Macedonia (382-336 B.C)
Time periods: Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C., 4th century B.C.