Ancient Greece


The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Song of Achilles
Circe
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Histories
The Republic
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Medea
The Symposium
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
Metamorphoses by OvidThe Aeneid by VirgilOvid's Erotic Poems by OvidHomeric Hymns by HomerThe Golden Ass by Apuleius
Greek/Roman Mythology Sources
9 books — 1 voter
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle    MoranThe Grass Crown by Colleen McCulloughMistress of Rome by Kate QuinnDaughters of Rome by Kate QuinnLady of the Eternal City by Kate Quinn
Greco Roman Historical Fiction
85 books — 9 voters

Circe by Madeline MillerThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodThe Silence of the Girls by Pat BarkerA Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Literary Retellings of Greek Myths
103 books — 138 voters
Aesop's Fables by AesopFrederick by Leo LionniThe Wind and the Sun by Bernadette WattsAesop in California by Doug HansenThe Tortoise and the Hare by Bernadette Watts
Aesop, Aesop's Fables and Retellings
59 books — 3 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanAntigone by SophoclesThe Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Greek Mythology
525 books — 591 voters
The Deep End of the Sea by Heather LyonsMedusa, A Love Story by Sasha SummersStone Blind by Natalie HaynesMedusa by Jessie BurtonSweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
Medusa
86 books — 48 voters

Yvonne Korshak
We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.
Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

Sophocles
TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here. ...more
Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

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