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Fiction set in ancient Greece

There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms. Titles include:

Books

Bronze Age and Mythistoricals

Atlantis

Crete

Daedalus
  • Michael Ayrton,
    • The Testament of Daedalus (1962)
    • The Maze Maker (1967)
  • Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry (1933)
  • Pasiphae by Peter Huby (2000)
  • Story for Icarus by Ernst Schnabel (1958)
Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra
Miscellaneous Minoan
  • Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull (1979)
  • Paul Capon, The Kingdom of the Bulls (1961)
  • David Cheney, Son of Minos (1930)
  • Clyde B. Clason, Murder Gone Minoan (1939)
  • Les Cole & Ben Templeton, The Sea Kings: The Prophecy (1996)
  • Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel (1940)
  • Audrey Haggard, Double Axe (1929)
  • Nikos Kazantzakis, At the Palaces of Knossos (1981)
  • Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Birth of the Gods (1924)
  • Myron Palmer, Treachery in Crete (1961)
  • S.V. Peddle (Vince Peddle & Sandra Peddle), The Moon Maiden (2003)
  • Richard Purtill,
    • The Golden Gryphon Feather (1979)
    • The Stolen Goddess (1980)
  • Thomas Burnett Swann,
    • The Forest of Forever (1971)
    • Cry Silver Bells (1977)
    • The Day of the Minotaur (1966)
  • James Watson, The Bull Leapers (1970)
  • Laura Gill, Knossos (2014)

Hercules, Jason et al.

  • Hercules - Sportsman by Bertram Atkey (1922)
  • The Amazons by Ivor Bannet (1948)
  • A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze (1973)
  • John Gregory Betancourt,
    • Hercules: The Gates of Hades (2001)
    • Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera (1997)
    • Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon (1997)
  • Voyage with Jason by Ken Catran (2000)
  • Keith R.A. DeCandido,
    • Cheiron's Warriors (1999)
    • The Ares Alliance (2000)
  • Corydon and the Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt (2005)
  • The Golden Fleece (U.K.) aka Hercules, My Shipmate (USA) by Robert Graves (1945)
  • Medea by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
  • Earth Giant by Edison Marshall (1960)
  • Fred Saberhagen,
    • God of the Golden Fleece (2001)
    • The Arms of Hercules (2000)
    • The Face of Apollo (1999)
  • The Clashing Rocks by Ian Serraillier (1963)
  • Medea by Miranda Seymour (1972)
  • Jason by Henry Treece (1961)
  • Jason! by Leonard Colston West (2005)
  • Medea: A Novel by Christa Wolf (1998)
  • Jason and the Gorgon's Blood by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris (2004)

Trojan War

  • George Baker, Fidus Achates (1944)
  • Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018)
  • The Firebrand, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1987)
  • Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home (1980)
  • Brady Quinlan Brown, Honoured by Man (2002)
  • Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy (2004)
  • Achilles, by Elizabeth Cook (2003)
  • Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday (2002), (aka On the Seas to Troy UK 2004)
  • Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial (1965)
  • H.C. Crew, The Trojan Boy and other stories (1928)
  • Susan Curran, The Mouse God (1986)
  • Lawton V. Evans, Heroes of Troy (1924)
  • Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War (1971)
  • Sarah B. Franklin (Dave Duncan), Daughter of Troy (1998)
  • David Gemmell,
    • Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    • Troy: Shield of Thunder (2006)
  • Adèle Geras, Troy (2000)
  • Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan (1962)
  • Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1961)
  • Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior (2004)
  • Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles (2009)
  • Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships (2019)
  • Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood (2006)
  • Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover (1931)
  • Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy (2004)
  • Richard Matturro, Troy (1989)
  • Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy (1998)
  • Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander (1933)
  • Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight (1998)
  • Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2011)
  • Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937)
  • Phillip Parotti,
    • The Greek Generals Talk (1986)
    • The Trojan Generals Talk (1988)
  • Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970)
  • Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937)
  • Jackie Rose, Warrior's Captive: I, Briseis (e-book, 2004)
  • Alan Sims, Phoinix (1928)
  • S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986)
  • S. M. Stirling,
    • Against the Tide of Years (1999)
    • On the Oceans of Eternity (2000)
  • Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916)
  • Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967)
  • Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (2002)
  • Agnes Vaughan, Within the Walls (1935)
  • Tyrone Walls, To Die Like an Amazon (2002)

Helen

Cassandra

Odysseus

Miscellaneous Mycenaean

  • George Baker,
    • Cry Hylas on the Hills (1945)
    • Whom Athene Loved (1950)
    • Son of Hylas (1952)
    • The Last Shore (1953)
  • Ivor Bannett, The Arrows of the Sun (1949)
  • John Barth, Chimera (1972)
  • Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993)
  • Paul Capon,
    • Warrior's Moon (1960)
    • Lord of the Chariots (1962)
  • Maurice Druon, The Memoirs of Zeus (1964)
  • John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess (1949)
  • Jackie French, Oracle (2010)
  • Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau, Atalanta: The Fastest Runner in the World (1995)
  • Muriel Gantry, The Distance Never Changes (1965)
  • Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen,
    • The God beneath the Sea (1972)
    • The Golden Shadow (1973)
  • Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North (1958)
  • Kerry Greenwood, Electra (1996)
  • Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste )2004)
  • Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs (1928)
  • Ursule Molinaro, Power Dreamers: The Jocasta Complex (1995)
  • DeWolfe Morgan, Before Homer (1938)
  • Myron Palmer, At the Lion Gate (1962)
  • Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky (1990)
  • John Cowper Powys, Atlantis (1954)
  • Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002)
  • Mary Ray,
    • Standing Lions (1968)
    • Shout against the Wind (1970)
    • Song of Thunder (1978)
    • The Golden Bees (1984)
  • Georgia Sallaska,
    • Three Ships and Three Kings (1969)
    • The Last Heracles (1974)
  • J.G. Sarasin (Geraldine Gordon Salmon), The Man from Troy (1938)
  • Gladys Schmitt, Electra (1966)
  • Ian Serraillier, The Gorgon's Head (1961)
  • George Shipway,
    • Warrior in Bronze (1977)
    • King in Splendour (1979)
  • Henry Treece,

Based on a Television Program

  • Timothy Boggs,
    • Hercules - The Legendary Journeys: By the Sword (1996)
    • Hercules - The Legendary Journeys: Serpent's Shadow (1996)
    • Hercules -The Legendary Journeys: The Eye of the Ram (1997)
  • Ru Emerson,
    • Xena - Warrior Princess: The Thief of Hermes (1997)
    • Xena - Warrior Princess: The Huntress and the Sphinx (1997)
    • Xena - Warrior Princess: Warrior Princess Hunter (1999)
    • Xena - Warrior Princess: Questward Ho! (2000)
    • Xena - Warrior Princess: The Empty Throne (2000)
  • Daniel J. Fingeroth, Young Hercules: Mission from Zeus (2000)
  • Stella Howard, Xena - Warrior Princes: Prophecy of Darkness (1997)
  • Hunter Kennedy, Hercules and the Geek of Greece (1999)
  • Mel Odom, Young Hercules (1999)
  • David Seider, Hercules - The Legendary Journeys: The First Casualty (1997)

Archaic Greece

Sappho

  • Betty Askwith, Erinna (1937)
  • Michael Darius (Alexander Trocchi), Sappho of Lesbos (1960)
  • Ellen Frye, The Other Sappho (1989)
  • Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite (1965)
  • Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap (2003)
  • Alexander Krislov, No Man Sings (1956)
  • Corbie Petulengro, Slave Girls of Lesbos (e-book, 2001)
  • Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho (1974)
  • Thomas Burnett Swann, Wolfwinter (1972)

Aesop

Miscellaneous Archaic

5th Century BCE

Persian Wars

  • John Buchan, The Moon Endureth (short story "The Lemnian") (1912)
  • John Burke, The Lion of Sparta (1961)
  • The Long War, by Christian Cameron
    • Killer of Men (2010)
    • Marathon (2011)
    • Poseidon's Spear (2012)
    • The Great King (2014)
    • Salamis (2015)
    • The Rage of Ares (2016)
  • A.J. Church, Three Greek Children (1889)
  • A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles, by William Stearns Davis (1907)
  • Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis (1923)
  • Kenneth Lillington, Young Man of Morning (1979)
  • Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan (1873)
  • Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan (2002)
  • In Kithairon's Shadow, by Jon Edward Martin (2003)
  • Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta (1962)
  • Margarett Mirley,
    • The Leave-Takers (2004)
    • Dream-Thoughts (2004)
    • Trysts (2004)
  • Stephanie Plowman, The Road to Sardis (1965)
  • Stephen Pressfield, Gates of Fire (1998)
  • Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway (1964)
  • Caroline Dale Snedeker,
    • The Perilous Seat (1923)
    • The Spartan (1911)
  • The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate by L. Sprague de Camp (1961)
  • Gore Vidal, Creation (1982)
  • Jill Paton Walsh, Farewell, Great King (1972)
  • Gene Wolfe,
    • Soldier of the Mist (1986)
    • Soldier of Arete (1989)
    • Soldier of Sidon (2006)

Pericles and/or Aspasia

  • Gertrude Atherton, The Immortal Marriage (1927)
  • Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning (1974)
  • Madelon Dimont, Darling Pericles (1972)
  • Robert Hamerling, Aspasia (1875)
  • W. Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia (1836)
  • Margery Lawrence, The Gate of Yesterday (1960)
  • Rex Warner, Pericles the Athenian (1963)

Alcibiades

  • Gertrude Atherton, The Jealous Gods (1928)
  • Charles H. Bromby, Alkibiades (1905)
  • Vincenz Brun,
    • Alcibiades, beloved of Gods and Men (1935)
    • Alcibiades, forsaken by Gods and Men (1936)
  • Daniel Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele (2002)
  • Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods (1908)
  • Peter Green, Achilles His Armour (1955)
  • Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet Crown (1954)
  • M. Pardoe, Argle's Oracle (1959)
  • Steven Pressfield, Tides of War (2000)
  • C.E. Robinson, The Days of Alcibiades (1925)
  • Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis (1969)

Socrates

Miscellaneous 5th Century

  • Helena Carus, Artemis, Fare Thee Well (1935)
  • A.J. Church, Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens (1892)
  • I.O. Evans, Olympic Runner (1955)
  • Charles Kelsey Gaines, Gorgo of Old Athens (1903)
  • Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters (1996)
  • Geraldine M. Gay, The Astrologer's Daughter (1906)
  • Owen F. Grazebrook, Nicanor of Athens (1946)
  • Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series
    • Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989)
    • The Walled Orchard (1991)
  • Alexander N. Hood, Tales of Old Sicily (1906)
  • Jacynth Hope-Simpson, The Unknown Island (1969)
  • John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929)
  • William P. Kelly, The Stranger from Ionia (1911)
  • Noel Langley, A Nymph in Clover (1948)
  • Isabelle Lawrence, Niko (1956)
  • Edward A. Leatham, Charmione (1859)
  • Kenneth Lillington, The Secret Arrow (1960)
  • Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004)
  • A. Mayer, Olympiad (1962)
  • Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974)
  • Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925)
  • George Moore, Aphrodite in Aulis (1931)
  • Nicholas Nicastro, Isle of Stone (2005)
  • Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus (1939)
  • Wilder Penfield, The Torch (1960)
  • Lucy F. Perkins, The Spartan Twins (1936)
  • Michael Pritsos, Hoplite: Torch of Prometheus (2008)
  • Mary Renault
  • Caroline Dale Snedeker, Theras and his Town (1925)
  • José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
  • Henry de Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player (1912)
  • Lin Sten, Arion's Odyssey tetralogy
    • Life After Death at Ipsambul (vol. 1) (2015)
    • Aegean Fire (vol. 2) (2018)
    • Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos (vol. 3) (2017)
    • Return to Lesbos (vol. 4) (2017)
  • Donald Suddaby, Crowned with Wild Olive (1961)
  • Geoffrey Trease, Web of Traitors, American title The Crown of Violet (1952)
  • Arthur S. Way, Sons of the Violet-Crowned (1929)
  • C.M. Wieland,
    • The History of Agathon (1766-7)
    • The Republic of Fools (1774)
  • Frank Yerby, Goat Song (1967)

4th Century BCE

Xenophon

Alexander the Great

  • Anna Apostolou,
    • A Murder in Macedon (1997)
    • A Murder in Thebes (1998)
  • Konrad Bercovici, Alexander (1928)
  • Ben Bova, Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
  • Mary Butts, The Macedonian (1933)
  • Christian Cameron, God of War (2012)
  • A.J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great (1890)
  • Paul Doherty
  • Michael A. Dimitri, The Daughter of Neoptolemus (1993)
  • Maurice Druon (Maurice Kessel), Alexander the God (1960)
  • Karl V. Eiker, Star of Macedon (1957)
  • Judith French, The Conqueror (2003)
  • Robert H. Fuller, The Golden Hope (1905)
  • David Gemmell,
  • G.A. Hauser, In the Shadow of Alexander (2003)
  • Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End (1999)
  • Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great (1941)
  • Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (1946)
  • Merline Lovelace, Lady of the Upper Kingdom (1996)
  • Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
    • Alexander: Child of a Dream (2001)
    • Alexander: The Sands of Ammon (2001)
    • Alexander: The Ends of the Earth (2001)
  • Klaus Mann, Alexander: a Novel of Utopia (1929)
  • Edison Marshall, The Conqueror (1962)
  • Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women (1965)
  • Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great (1960)
  • Helga Moray,
    • I, Roxana (1965)
    • A Son for Roxana (1971)
    • Roxana and Alexander (1971)
  • Marshall Monroe Kirkman,
    • Iskander (1903)
    • The Romance of Alexander and Roxana (1909)
    • The Romance of Alexander the King (1909)
  • Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes (2004)
  • Scott Oden, Memnon (2006)
  • Robert Payne, Alexander the God (1954)
  • Alfred Powers, Alexander's Horses (1959)
  • Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War (2005)
  • Limbica Celea Reges, A Legend of Topaz Eyes (1989)
  • Jeanne Reames,
    • Dancing with the Lion: Becoming (2019) — Alexander's time with Aristotle
    • Dancing with the Lion: Rise (2019) — Alexander early career under his father, Philip
  • Mary Renault, Alexander trilogy
    • Fire from Heaven (1969) — the early life of Alexander the Great
    • The Persian Boy (1972) — Alexander the Great after his conquest of Persia
    • Funeral Games (1981) — the successors of Alexander
  • Katherine Roberts, The Mausoleum Murder (2003)
  • Melissa Scott, A Choice of Destinies (1986)
  • Susan Spitzer, In the Shadow of a God (1984)
  • Thomas Sundell, A Bloodline of Kings (2001)
  • Judith Tarr,
  • Jakob Wasserman, Alexander in Babylon (1949)

Miscellaneous 4th Century

  • Florence B. Anderson, Garland of Defeat (1927)
  • W.A. Becker, Charicles (1845)
  • The Sand-Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw (2000) about Archimedes
  • Margaret Doody, Aristotle and Stephanos series
    • Aristotle Detective (1978)
    • Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin (1980)
    • Aristotle and Poetic Justice (2000)
    • Aristotle and the Secrets of Life (2002)
    • Anello di bronzo ("Ring of Bronze") (2003)
    • Poison in Athens (2004)
    • Mysteries of Eleusis (2005)
  • John Gardner, The Wreckage of Agathon (1970)
  • Bryher, Gate to the Sea (1958)
  • Noel B. Gerson, The Golden Lyre (1963)
  • Don Harrison,
    • The Spartan (1982)
    • The Lion Warriors (1986)
  • Basil Kazandzis (Kazantzes), The Good and the Beautiful (1969)
  • William Kotzwinkle, Night-Book (1974)
  • Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Tyrant (2005)
  • Ursule Molinaro, The New Moon with the Old Moon in her Arms (1990)
  • Mary Ray, Sword Sleep (1975)
  • Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo (1966)
  • Katherine Roberts, The Olympic Conspiracy (2004)
  • Barnaby Ross, The Scrolls of Lysis (1962)
  • José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • F. Van Wyck Mason, Lysander (1957)
  • Peter Vansittart, A Choice of Murder (1992)

Hellenistic

  • Gillian Bradshaw, The Sand-Reckoner (2000)
  • Chaereas and Callirhoe, by Chariton of Aphrodisias (1st century)
  • Tyrant, by Christian Cameron
    • Tyrant (2008)
    • Storm of Arrows (2009)
    • Funeral Games (2010)
    • King of the Bosporus (2011)
    • Destroyer of Cities (2013)
    • Force of Kings (2014)
  • A. Dickeson, Tychiades (1903)
  • Alfred Duggan, Elephants and Castles (1963)
  • Georg Ebers,
  • I.O. Evans, Strange Devices (1950)
  • Vardis Fisher, Island of the Innocent (1952)
  • A.H. Gilkes, Four Sons (1906)
  • William Golding, The Double Tongue (1995)
  • Joan Grant, Return to Elysium (1947)
  • Timoleon, by G.A.Howkins (2015)
  • H.D., Hedylus (1928)
  • Jack Lindsay, Come Home at Last (1934)
  • Marjorie Livingston, Delphic Echo (1948)
  • Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1930)
  • Ernest Moss, Hannibal's Last Elephant (1979)
  • Eden Phillpotts, The Treasures of Typhon (1924)
  • Mary Ray, The Windows of Elissa (1982)
  • Carolyn Dale Snedeker, Forgotten Daughter (1933)
  • L. Sprague de Camp,
  • Duncan Sprott,
    • The House of the Eagle (2004)
    • Daughter of the Crocodile (2006)
  • H.N. Turteltaub, "Hellenic Traders" series, set some time after the death of Alexander
  • Agnes Vaughan, Akka, Dwarf of Syracuse (1940)
  • Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros (1930)


1st Century BCE

2nd Century CE

Short stories

Films

Plays

Radio

Comics

Video games

Television

See also

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