James Romm
American classical scholar and historian; professor of classical studies known for books on ancient Greek and Roman literature and history, including 'Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero' and 'The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought.'
Books
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1. The Sacred Band
A concise narrative history of the Theban Sacred Band—an elite corps of paired male lovers—tracing how their cohesion and military innovations under leaders like Pelopidas and Epaminondas defeated Sparta at Leuctra, propelled a brief Theban hegemony, and ultimately fell at Chaeronea to Philip II, while situating those events within the politics, personalities, and sources of classical Greece.
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