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From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep 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.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 this time the leading power of the Greek world. 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, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together. From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band follows the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.

At this time of writing, The Mobi The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom has garnered 8 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Mobi is Good TO READ!

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Disclaimer... i'm on page 153 out of 253 pages but apparently Amazon thinks i should have an opinion by now since they just emailed me about writing a review. i was excited to learn all about the Sacred Band... its inner workings, its rank and file, its camaraderie... so much so that i pre-ordered the book. what it actually is -- so far -- is a history of the times during which the Sacred Band existed. there have been about two pages dedicated to its specific origin, and a few pages since then recounting battles they were part of, but that's it. there is nothing -- so far -- about its inner workings, its rank and file, its camaraderie. i'm trying to stick with it because the times in which they were extant are interesting, but i've lost hope of actually learning anything about the Sacred Band itself.Ok, finished the book... and the adage is proved... THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THE SACRED BAND OF THEBES.

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