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The Sacred Band Pins she found herself surrounded byBy James Romm From classicist James Romm comes a strikingfascinating (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Greats 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,