The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom by James Romm

The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers and the Last Days of Greek Freedom

James Romm

320 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
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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, ...

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