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[]
- The Dancer from Atlantis, by Poul Anderson (1971)
Crete[]
Daedalus[]
- Michael Ayrton
- The Testament of Daedalus (1962)
- The Maze Maker (1967)
- Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry (1933)
- Pasiphae by (2000)
- Story for Icarus by Ernst Schnabel (1958)
Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra[]
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- Ariadne (1980)
- (1985)
- by (1948)
- by Eleanor Farjeon (1945)
- Theseus by André Gide (1946)
- by Roger Lancelyn Green (1957)
- by (1924)
- Circe by Madeline Miller (2018)
- Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield (2002)
- Mary Renault, "Thesead"
- The King Must Die (1958)
- The Bull from the Sea (1962)
- by Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis (1988)
- by Fred Saberhagen (2000)
- by Ian Serraillier (1962)
- by Althea Urn (1959)
Miscellaneous Minoan[]
- Moyra Caldecott, (1979)
- Paul Capon, (1961)
- David Cheney, (1930)
- , (1939)
- , (1996)
- Kristmann Gudmundsson, (1940)
- , (1929)
- Nikos Kazantzakis, (1981)
- Dmitri Merezhkovsky, (1924)
- , (1961)
- ( & ), The Moon Maiden (2003)
- Richard Purtill
- (1979)
- (1980)
- Thomas Burnett Swann
- (1971)
- (1977)
- (1966)
- James Watson, (1970)
- , Knossos (2014)
Hercules, Jason et al.[]
- by (1922)
- The Amazons by (1948)
- A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze (1973)
- John Gregory Betancourt
- (2001)
- (1997)
- (1997)
- by Ken Catran (2000)
- Keith R.A. DeCandido
- (1999)
- (2000)
- Corydon and the Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt (2005)
- (U.K.) aka Hercules, My Shipmate (USA) by Robert Graves (1945)
- Medea by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
- by Edison Marshall (1960)
- Fred Saberhagen
- (2001)
- (2000)
- (1999)
- by Ian Serraillier (1963)
- Medea by Miranda Seymour (1972)
- Jason by Henry Treece (1961)
- by (2005)
- by Christa Wolf (1998)
- by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris (2004)
Trojan War[]
- , (1944)
- Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018)
- The Firebrand, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1987)
- Nancy Bogen, (1980)
- , (2002)
- Lindsay Clarke, (2004)
- Achilles, by (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)
- , (1928)
- , (1986)
- , (1924)
- Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War (1971)
- (Dave Duncan), (1998)
- David Gemmell
- Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
- Troy: Shield of Thunder (2006)
- Adèle Geras, Troy (2000)
- Noel B. Gerson, (1962)
- Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1961)
- Judith Hand, (2004)
- Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles (2009)
- Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships (2019)
- Tom Holland, (2006)
- Jack Lindsay, (1931)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi, (2004)
- , Troy (1989)
- Colleen McCullough, (1998)
- Maude Meagher, (1933)
- Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight (1998)
- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2011)
- Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937)
- Phillip Parotti
- (1986)
- (1988)
- Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970)
- Laura Riding, (1937)
- , (e-book, 2004)
- , (1928)
- S.P. Somtow, (1986)
- S. M. Stirling
- Against the Tide of Years (1999)
- On the Oceans of Eternity (2000)
- Rex Stout, (1916)
- Henry Treece, (1967)
- Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (2002)
- , (1935)
- Tyrone Walls, (2002)
- Gordon Doherty, (2021)
- Gordon Doherty, (2021)
Helen[]
- , (1991)
- , (1998)
- John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925)
- Margaret George, Helen of Troy (2006)
- H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire (1890)
- , (1956)
- Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965)
- Richard Purtill, (1983)
- Miranda Seymour, Goddess (1979)
- , (1997)
- Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)
- , (2011)
Cassandra[]
- Hilary Bailey, (1993)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987)
- Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra (1995)
- Ursule Molinaro, (1979)
- Georgia Sallaska, (1970)
- Christa Wolf, Cassandra (1983)
Odysseus[]
- , (1941)
- John Arden, (1991)
- Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005)
- Lindsay Clarke, (2005)
- , (1929)
- John Erskine, (1928)
- François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
- , (1962)
- , (1995)
- Adèle Geras, (2000)
- Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter (1955)
- , Return to Ithaca (1952)
- , (2002)
- Eden Phillpotts, (1926)
- Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis
- (1986)
- (1987)
- Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls (2004)
- Ernst Schnabel, The Voyage Home (1958)
- Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, (2001)
Miscellaneous Mycenaean[]
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- (1945)
- (1950)
- (1952)
- (1953)
- , (1949)
- John Barth, Chimera (1972)
- Roberto Calasso, (1993)
- Paul Capon
- (1960)
- (1962)
- Maurice Druon, (1964)
- John Erskine, (1949)
- Jackie French, Oracle (2010)
- , (1995)
- , (1965)
-
- (1972)
- (1973)
- Roger Lancelyn Green, (1958)
- Kerry Greenwood, (1996)
- Victoria Grossack & , Iokaste )2004)
- Pierre Louys, (1928)
- Ursule Molinaro, (1995)
- , (1938)
- , (1962)
- Phillip Parotti, (1990)
- John Cowper Powys, (1954)
- Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002)
- Mary Ray
- (1968)
- (1970)
- (1978)
- (1984)
- Georgia Sallaska
- (1969)
- (1974)
- (), (1938)
- Gladys Schmitt, Electra (1966)
- Ian Serraillier, (1961)
- George Shipway
- (1977)
- (1979)
- Henry Treece
- The Golden One (1961)
- Electra (1963)
- Oedipus (1964)
Based on a Television Program[]
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- (1996)
- (1996)
- (1997)
-
- (1997)
- (1997)
- (1999)
- (2000)
- (2000)
- , (2000)
- , (1997)
- , (1999)
- Mel Odom, Young Hercules (1999)
- , (1997)
Archaic Greece[]
Sappho[]
- , Erinna (1937)
- (Alexander Trocchi), Sappho of Lesbos (1960)
- , (1989)
- Peter Green, (1965)
- Erica Jong, (2003)
- , (1956)
- , (e-book, 2001)
- Martha Rofheart, (1974)
- Thomas Burnett Swann, (1972)
Aesop[]
- John Vornholt, The Fabulist (1993)
- , Aesop (1943)
Miscellaneous Archaic[]
- , (1930)
- , (2005)
- Georg Ebers, (1864)
- Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite (1886)
- , (2001)
- , Olympiad (1988)
- , (1967)
- Tom Holt, Olympiad (2000)
- David Pownall, (1993)
- Mary Ray, (1964)
- Mary Renault, The Praise Singer (1979)
- , (2001)
- George R. Stewart, Years of the City (1955)
- Ivan Yefremov, The Land of Foam (1958)
5th century BCE[]
Persian Wars[]
- John Buchan, The Moon Endureth (short story "The Lemnian") (1912)
- John Burke, (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, (1889)
- : A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles, by William Stearns Davis (1907)
- Clare Winger Harris, (1923)
- Kenneth Lillington, (1979)
- Edward Bulwer Lytton, (1873)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan (2002)
- , by Jon Edward Martin (2003)
- Roderick Milton, (1962)
- Margarett Mirley
- (2004)
- (2004)
- Trysts (2004)
- Stephanie Plowman, (1965)
- Stephen Pressfield, Gates of Fire (1998)
- Mary Renault, (1964)
- Caroline Dale Snedeker
- (1923)
- The Spartan (1911)
- The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate by L. Sprague de Camp (1961)
- Gore Vidal, Creation (1982)
- Jill Paton Walsh, (1972)
- Gene Wolfe
- Soldier of the Mist (1986)
- Soldier of Arete (1989)
- Soldier of Sidon (2006)
Pericles and/or Aspasia[]
- Gertrude Atherton, (1927)
- Taylor Caldwell, (1974)
- Madelon Dimont, (1972)
- Robert Hamerling, Aspasia (1875)
- W. Savage Landor, (1836)
- Margery Lawrence, (1960)
- Rex Warner, (1963)
Alcibiades[]
- Gertrude Atherton, (1928)
- , Alkibiades (1905)
- ,
- (1935)
- (1936)
- Daniel Chavarría, (2002)
- Anna Bowman Dodd, (1908)
- Peter Green, (1955)
- Gertrude R. Levy, (1954)
- M. Pardoe, (1959)
- Steven Pressfield, Tides of War (2000)
- , (1925)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, (1969)
Socrates[]
- O.F. Grazebrook, (1927)
- Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)
- A.C. Malcom, (1947)
- Cora Mason, Socrates (1953)
- Fritz Mauthner, (1926)
- Robert Pick, (1954)
- Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine (1956)
- Geoffrey Trease, The Crown of Violet aka Web of Traitors (USA) (1952)
Miscellaneous 5th century[]
- Helena Carus, (1935)
- A.J. Church, (1892)
- I.O. Evans, (1955)
- Charles Kelsey Gaines, (1903)
- Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters (1996)
- Geraldine M. Gay, (1906)
- Owen F. Grazebrook, (1946)
- Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series
- Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989)
- The Walled Orchard (1991)
- Alexander N. Hood, (1906)
- Jacynth Hope-Simpson, (1969)
- John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929)
- William P. Kelly, (1911)
- Noel Langley, (1948)
- Isabelle Lawrence, Niko (1956)
- Edward A. Leatham, (1859)
- Kenneth Lillington, (1960)
- Jon Edward Martin, (2004)
- A. Mayer, Olympiad (1962)
- Iona McGregor, (1974)
- Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925)
- George Moore, (1931)
- Nicholas Nicastro, (2005)
- Jan Parandowski, (1939)
- Wilder Penfield, The Torch (1960)
- Lucy F. Perkins, (1936)
- , (2008)
- Mary Renault
- The Mask of Apollo (1966)
- The Praise Singer (1978)
- Caroline Dale Snedeker, (1925)
- José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
- Henry de Vere Stacpoole, (1912)
- Lin Sten, tetralogy
- (vol. 1) (2015)
- (vol. 2) (2018)
- (vol. 3) (2017)
- (vol. 4) (2017)
- Donald Suddaby, (1961)
- Geoffrey Trease, Web of Traitors, American title The Crown of Violet (1952)
- Arthur S. Way, (1929)
- C.M. Wieland,
- (1766-7)
- (1774)
- Frank Yerby, Goat Song (1967)
4th century BCE[]
Xenophon[]
- J. Barbary, (1963)
- Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand (2001)
- Stephen Marlowe, The Shining (1963)
- Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes (2nd century)
Alexander the Great[]
- Anna Apostolou
- A Murder in Macedon (1997)
- (1998)
- Konrad Bercovici, Alexander (1928)
- Ben Bova, (1994)
- Mary Butts, (1933)
- Christian Cameron, God of War (2012)
- , (1890)
- Paul Doherty
- (2001)
- (2002)
- The Gates of Hell (2003)
- , (1993)
- Maurice Druon (Maurice Kessel), (1960)
- , (1957)
- Judith French, The Conqueror (2003)
- , (1905)
- David Gemmell
- Lion of Macedon (1990)
- Dark Prince (1993)
- , (2003)
- Tom Holt, (1999)
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great (1941)
- Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (1946)
- , (1996)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- (2001)
- (2001)
- (2001)
- Klaus Mann, (1929)
- Edison Marshall, The Conqueror (1962)
- Aubrey Menen, (1965)
- Naomi Mitchison, (1960)
-
- (1965)
- (1971)
- (1971)
- Marshall Monroe Kirkman
- Iskander (1903)
- (1909)
- (1909)
- Nicholas Nicastro, (2004)
- Scott Oden, Memnon (2006)
- Robert Payne, (1954)
- , (1959)
- Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War (2005)
- , (1989)
- ,
- (2019) — Alexander's time with Aristotle
- (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, (1986)
- , (1984)
- , (2001)
- Judith Tarr
- (1993)
- Queen of the Amazons (2004)
- Jakob Wasserman, (1949)
- Ivan Yefremov, Thais of Athens (1972)
Miscellaneous 4th century[]
- Florence B. Anderson, (1927)
- W.A. Becker, Charicles (1845)
- The Sand-Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw (2000) about Archimedes
- Margaret Doody, Aristotle and Stephanos series
- (1978)
- (1980)
- (2000)
- (2002)
- ("Ring of Bronze") (2003)
- (2004)
- (2005)
- John Gardner, (1970)
- Bryher, (1958)
- Noel B. Gerson, (1963)
- Don Harrison,
- The Spartan (1982)
- (1986)
- Basil Kazandzis (Kazantzes), (1969)
- William Kotzwinkle, (1974)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Tyrant (2005)
- Ursule Molinaro, (1990)
- Mary Ray, (1975)
- Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo (1966)
- Katherine Roberts, The Olympic Conspiracy (2004)
- Barnaby Ross, (1962)
- José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
- L. Sprague de Camp
- The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
- An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)
- F. Van Wyck Mason, Lysander (1957)
- Peter Vansittart, (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, (1903)
- Alfred Duggan, (1963)
- Georg Ebers
- The Sisters (1880)
- Arachne (1898)
- I.O. Evans, (1950)
- Vardis Fisher, (1952)
- A.H. Gilkes, Four Sons (1906)
- William Golding, The Double Tongue (1995)
- Joan Grant, (1947)
- Timoleon, by (2015)
- H.D., Hedylus (1928)
- Jack Lindsay, (1934)
- Marjorie Livingston, (1948)
- Naomi Mitchison, (1930)
- Ernest Moss, (1979)
- Eden Phillpotts, (1924)
- Mary Ray, (1982)
- Carolyn Dale Snedeker, (1933)
- L. Sprague de Camp
- The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)
- The Golden Wind (1969)
- Duncan Sprott
- (2004)
- (2006)
- H.N. Turteltaub, "Hellenic Traders" series, set some time after the death of Alexander
- Over the Wine Dark Sea (2001)
- The Gryphon's Skull (2002)
- The Sacred Land (2003)
- Owls to Athens (2004)
- Agnes Vaughan, (1940)
- Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros (1930)
1st century BCE[]
- The Double Tongue, by William Golding (1995)
2nd century CE[]
- The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, by Achilles Tatius (2nd century)
- Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus (2nd century)
- Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea, by Heliodorus of Emesa (2nd century)
- True History, by Lucian (2nd century AD), not necessarily set anywhere near Greece
Short stories[]
- "Helike", by (The Quarry Journal, 2012)
- "", by (The Quarry Journal, 2014)
- "", by (The Quarry Journal, 2015)
Films[]
- 300 (2007)
- 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
- 300 Spartans, The (1962)
- Alexander (2004)
- Alexander the Great (1956)
- Antigone (1961)
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- Colossus of Rhodes, The (1961)
- Helen of Troy (1956)
- Helen of Troy (2003)
- Hercules (1983)
- Hercules (1997), A Disney film.
- Immortals (2011 film)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963/2000)
- Minotaur (2006)
- Socrates (1971)
- Ulysses (1955)
- Troy (2004)
- Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Plays[]
- Adventure Story, by Terence Rattigan
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare
- Socrates on Trial by Andrew David Irvine
- Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare
- Troilus and Cressida, by William Shakespeare
- The Two Noble Kinsmen, by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
Radio[]
Comics[]
- 300 by Frank Miller
- Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
- by Marvel Illustrated
- by Marvel Illustrated
- by Marvel Illustrated
Video games[]
- Age of Empires
- Age of Mythology
- Ancient Wars: Sparta
- Apotheon
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
- Battle of Olympus
- God of War
- Fate of Hellas
- Phelios
- Rampage Through Time
- Rise of the Argonauts
- Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
- Spartan: Total Warrior
- Titan Quest
- Warriors: Legends of Troy
- Zeus: Master of Olympus
Television[]
- Atlantis
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
- Xena: Warrior Princess
See also[]
- Fiction set in Ancient Rome
- List of historical fiction by time period
External links[]
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