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

Atlantis

Daedalus
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.

Trojan War

Helen

Cassandra

Odysseus

Miscellaneous Mycenaean

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)

Sappho

Aesop

Miscellaneous Archaic

Persian Wars

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

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)

Xenophon

Alexander the Great

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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