From classicist James Romm comes a ';strikingfascinating' (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebesand 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 thi The Sacred Band - James Romm od authora James Romm a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
James Romm |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
320 |
| Rok vydání |
2021 |
| Nakladatelství |
Scribner |
