"Army of Lovers"
Documentary Screening + Creator Discussion
A new documentary has come out in Europe about the Sacred Band of Thebes—the crack regiment of late Classical Greece, which consisted of 150 pairs of male lovers. The film is called Army of Lovers and features G&LR board member and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours Professor Andrew Lear (AB '81) as a talking head.
It is not available in the US yet, but you can join a virtual screening on Sept 28th followed by a Q&A with Prof. Lear and James Romm, professor of Classics at Bard College, and author of the book that inspired the film, The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom (see the The G&LR review which subscribers can read here).