Fiction set in ancient Greece

Books

Bronze Age and Mythistoricals

Atlantis

• The Dancer from Atlantis, by Poul Anderson

  Crete

Daedalus

• Michael Ayrton,
• *The Testament of Daedalus
• *The Maze Maker
• Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry
• Pasiphae by Peter Huby
• Story for Icarus by Ernst Schnabel

  Theseus, Ariadne, Phaedra

• June Rachuy Brindel
• *Ariadne
• *Phaedra
• Black Sail by Florence B. Anderson
• Ariadne and the Bull by Eleanor Farjeon
• Theseus by André Gide
• Mystery at Mycenae by Roger Lancelyn Green
• Children of Ancient Greece by Louise Lamprey
• Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield
• Mary Renault, "Thesead"
• *The King Must Die
• *The Bull from the Sea
• by Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis
• Ariadne's Web by Fred Saberhagen
• The Way of Danger by Ian Serraillier
• Five Miles from Candia by Althea Urn

  Miscellaneous Minoan

• Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull
• Paul Capon, The Kingdom of the Bulls
• David Cheney, Son of Minos
• Clyde B. Clason, Murder Gone Minoan
• Les Cole & Ben Templeton,
• Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel
• Audrey Haggard, Double Axe
• Nikos Kazantzakis, At the Palaces of Knossos
• Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Birth of the Gods
• Myron Palmer, Treachery in Crete
• S.V. Peddle, The Moon Maiden
• Richard Purtill,
• *The Golden Gryphon Feather
• *The Stolen Goddess
• Thomas Burnett Swann,
• *The Forest of Forever
• *Cry Silver Bells
• *The Day of the Minotaur
• James Watson, The Bull Leapers
• Laura Gill, Knossos

  Hercules, Jason et al.

• Hercules - Sportsman by Bertram Atkey
• The Amazons by Ivor Bannet
• A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze
• John Gregory Betancourt,
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• Voyage with Jason by Ken Catran
• Keith R.A. DeCandido,
• *Cheiron's Warriors
• *The Ares Alliance
• Corydon and the Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt
• The Golden Fleece aka Hercules, My Shipmate by Robert Graves
• Medea by Kerry Greenwood
• Earth Giant by Edison Marshall
• Fred Saberhagen,
• *God of the Golden Fleece
• *The Arms of Hercules
• *The Face of Apollo
• The Clashing Rocks by Ian Serraillier
• Medea by Miranda Seymour
• Jason by Henry Treece
• Jason! by Leonard Colston West
• by Christa Wolf
• Jason and the Gorgon's Blood by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris

  Trojan War

• George Baker, Fidus Achates
• The Firebrand, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home
• Brady Quinlan Brown, Honoured by Man
• Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy
• Achilles, by Elizabeth Cook
• Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday,
• Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial
• H.C. Crew, The Trojan Boy and other stories
• Susan Curran, The Mouse God
• Lawton V. Evans, Heroes of Troy
• Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War
• Sarah B. Franklin, Daughter of Troy
• David Gemmell,
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• Adèle Geras, Troy
• Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy
• Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior
• Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles
• Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood
• Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy
• Richard Matturro, Troy
• Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy
• Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander
• Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight
• Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse
• Phillip Parotti,
• *The Greek Generals Talk
• *The Trojan Generals Talk
• Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy
• Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending
• Jackie Rose,
• Alan Sims, Phoinix
• S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse
• S. M. Stirling,
• *Against the Tide of Years
• *On the Oceans of Eternity
• Rex Stout, The Great Legend
• Henry Treece, The Windswept City
• Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings
• Agnes Vaughan, Within the Walls
• Tyrone Walls, To Die Like an Amazon

  Helen

• Linda Cargill, To Follow the Goddess
• Diana M. Concannon, Helen's Passage
• John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy
• Margaret George, Helen of Troy
• H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire
• Eva Hemmer Hansen, Scandal in Troy
• Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy
• Richard Purtill, The Mirror of Helen
• Miranda Seymour, Goddess
• Florence Wallin, According to Helen
• Edward Lucas White, Helen
• Laura Gill, Helen's Daughter

  Cassandra

• Hilary Bailey, Cassandra, Princess of Troy
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand
• Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra
• Ursule Molinaro, The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy
• Georgia Sallaska, Priam's Daughter
• Christa Wolf, Cassandra

  Odysseus

• Alison B. Alessios, Spear of Ulysses
• John Arden, Cogs Tyrannic
• Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
• Lindsay Clarke, The Return from Troy
• H.C. Crew, The Lost King
• John Erskine,
• François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus
• Michael Gall, A Bedside Odyssey
• Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau, Aleta and the Queen
• Adèle Geras, Ithaka
• Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter
• Eyvind Johansson, Return to Ithaca
• Jerry McGinley,
• Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island
• Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis,
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• Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls
• Ernst Schnabel, The Voyage Home
• Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze

  Miscellaneous Mycenaean

• George Baker,
• *Cry Hylas on the Hills
• *Whom Athene Loved
• *Son of Hylas
• *The Last Shore
• Ivor Bannett, The Arrows of the Sun
• John Barth, Chimera
• Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
• Paul Capon,
• *Warrior's Moon
• *Lord of the Chariots
• Maurice Druon, The Memoirs of Zeus
• John Erskine,
• Jackie French, Oracle
• Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau,
• Muriel Gantry, The Distance Never Changes
• Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen,
• *The God beneath the Sea
• *The Golden Shadow
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North
• Kerry Greenwood, Electra
• Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste )2004)
• Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs
• Ursule Molinaro,
• DeWolfe Morgan, Before Homer
• Myron Palmer, At the Lion Gate
• Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky
• John Cowper Powys, Atlantis
• Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons
• Mary Ray,
• *Standing Lions
• *Shout against the Wind
• *Song of Thunder
• *The Golden Bees
• Georgia Sallaska,
• *Three Ships and Three Kings
• *The Last Heracles
• J.G. Sarasin, The Man from Troy
• Gladys Schmitt, Electra
• Ian Serraillier, The Gorgon's Head
• George Shipway,
• *Warrior in Bronze
• *King in Splendour
• Henry Treece,
• *The Golden One
• *Electra
• *Oedipus

  Based on a Television Program

• Timothy Boggs,
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• Ru Emerson,
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• Daniel J. Fingeroth,
• Stella Howard,
• Hunter Kennedy, Hercules and the Geek of Greece
• Mel Odom, Young Hercules
• David Seider,

  Archaic Greece

Sappho

• Betty Askwith, Erinna
• Michael Darius, Sappho of Lesbos
• Ellen Frye, The Other Sappho
• Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite
• Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap
• Alexander Krislov, No Man Sings
• Corbie Petulengro, Slave Girls of Lesbos
• Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho
• Thomas Burnett Swann, Wolfwinter

  Aesop

• John Vornholt, The Fabulist
• A.D. Wintle, Aesop

  Miscellaneous Archaic

• Helena Carus, Metten of Tyre
• Martha Battle, Homer Realized
• Georg Ebers, An Egyptian Princess
• Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite
• Michael B. Edwards, Murder at the Panionic Games
• Nigel Frith, Olympiad
• Karlheinz Grosser, Tamburas
• Tom Holt, Olympiad
• David Pownall, The Sphinx and the Sybarites
• Mary Ray, The Voice of Apollo
• Mary Renault, The Praise Singer
• Werner Schmidlin, The Lion of the New Dawn
• George R. Stewart, Years of the City
• Ivan Yeframov, Land of Foam

  5th Century BCE

Persian Wars

• John Buchan, The Moon Endureth
• John Burke, The Lion of Sparta
• The Long War, by Christian Cameron
• *Killer of Men
• *Marathon
• *Poseidon's Spear
• *The Great King
• *Salamis
• *The Rage of Ares
• A.J. Church, Three Greek Children
• A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles, by William Stearns Davis
• Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis
• Kenneth Lillington, Young Man of Morning
• Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan
• In Kithairon's Shadow, by Jon Edward Martin
• Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta
• Margarett Mirley,
• *The Leave-Takers
• *Dream-Thoughts
• *Trysts
• Stephanie Plowman, The Road to Sardis
• Stephen Pressfield, Gates of Fire
• Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway
• Caroline Dale Snedeker,
• * The Perilous Seat
• *The Spartan
• The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate by L. Sprague de Camp
• Gore Vidal, Creation
• Jill Paton Walsh, Farewell, Great King
• Gene Wolfe,
• *Soldier of the Mist
• *Soldier of Arete
• *Soldier of Sidon

  Pericles and/or Aspasia

• Gertrude Atherton, The Immortal Marriage
• Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning
• Madelon Dimont, Darling Pericles
• Robert Hamerling, Aspasia
• W. Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia
• Margery Lawrence, The Gate of Yesterday
• Rex Warner, Pericles the Athenian

  [Alcibiades]

• Gertrude Atherton, The Jealous Gods
• Charles H. Bromby, Alkibiades
• Vincenz Brun,
• *Alcibiades, beloved of Gods and Men
• *Alcibiades, forsaken by Gods and Men
• Daniel Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele
• Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods
• Peter Green, Achilles His Armour
• Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet Crown
• M. Pardoe, Argle's Oracle
• Steven Pressfield, Tides of War
• C.E. Robinson, The Days of Alcibiades
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis

  Socrates

• O.F. Grazebrook, Socrates among his Peers
• Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates
• A.C. Malcom, O Men of Athens
• Cora Mason, Socrates
• Fritz Mauthner, Mrs. Socrates
• Robert Pick, The Escape of Socrates
• Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
• Geoffrey Trease, The Crown of Violet aka Web of Traitors

  Miscellaneous 5th Century

• Helena Carus, Artemis, Fare Thee Well
• A.J. Church, '
• I.O. Evans, Olympic Runner
• Charles Kelsey Gaines, Gorgo of Old Athens
• Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
• Geraldine M. Gay, The Astrologer's Daughter
• Owen F. Grazebrook, Nicanor of Athens
• Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series
• *Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens
• *The Walled Orchard
• Alexander N. Hood, Tales of Old Sicily
• Jacynth Hope-Simpson, The Unknown Island
• John Galen Howard, Pheidias
• William P. Kelly, The Stranger from Ionia
• Noel Langley, A Nymph in Clover
• Isabelle Lawrence, Niko
• Edward A. Leatham, Charmione
• Kenneth Lillington, The Secret Arrow
• Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis
• A. Mayer, Olympiad
• Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive
• Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land
• George Moore, Aphrodite in Aulis
• Nicholas Nicastro, Isle of Stone
• Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus
• Wilder Penfield, The Torch
• Lucy F. Perkins, The Spartan Twins
• Michael Pritsos, '
• Mary Renault
• *The Mask of Apollo
• *The Praise Singer
• Caroline Dale Snedeker, Theras and his Town
• José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
• Henry de Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player
• Lin Sten, Arion's Odyssey tetralogy
• *Life After Death at Ipsambul
• *Aegean Fire
• *Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos
• *Return to Lesbos
• Donald Suddaby, Crowned with Wild Olive
• Geoffrey Trease, Web of Traitors, American title The Crown of Violet
• Arthur S. Way, Sons of the Violet-Crowned
• C.M. Wieland,
• *The History of Agathon
• *The Republic of Fools
• Frank Yerby, Goat Song

  4th Century BCE

Xenophon

• J. Barbary, Ten Thousand Heroes
• Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand
• Stephen Marlowe, The Shining
• Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes

  Alexander the Great

• Anna Apostolou,
• *A Murder in Macedon
• *A Murder in Thebes
• Konrad Bercovici, Alexander
• Ben Bova, Orion and the Conqueror
• Mary Butts, The Macedonian
• Christian Cameron, God of War
• A.J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great
• Paul Doherty
• *The House of Death
• *The Godless Man
• *The Gates of Hell
• Michael A. Dimitri, The Daughter of Neoptolemus
• Maurice Druon, Alexander the God
• Karl V. Eiker, Star of Macedon
• Judith French, The Conqueror
• Robert H. Fuller, The Golden Hope
• David Gemmell,
• *Lion of Macedon
• *Dark Prince
• G.A. Hauser, In the Shadow of Alexander
• Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great
• Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon
• Merline Lovelace, Lady of the Upper Kingdom
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
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• Klaus Mann,
• Edison Marshall, The Conqueror
• Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women
• Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great
• Helga Moray,
• *I, Roxana
• *A Son for Roxana
• *Roxana and Alexander
• Marshall Monroe Kirkman,
• *Iskander
• *The Romance of Alexander and Roxana
• *The Romance of Alexander the King
• Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes
• Scott Oden, Memnon
• Robert Payne, Alexander the God
• Alfred Powers, Alexander's Horses
• Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War
• Limbica Celea Reges, A Legend of Topaz Eyes
• Jeanne Reames,
• *' — Alexander's time with Aristotle
• *' — Alexander early career under his father, Philip
• Mary Renault, Alexander trilogy
• *Fire from Heaven — the early life of Alexander the Great
• *The Persian Boy — Alexander the Great after his conquest of Persia
• *Funeral Games — the successors of Alexander
• Katherine Roberts, The Mausoleum Murder
• Melissa Scott, A Choice of Destinies
• Susan Spitzer, In the Shadow of a God
• Thomas Sundell, A Bloodline of Kings
• Judith Tarr,
• *Lord of the Two Lands
• *Queen of the Amazons
• Jakob Wasserman, Alexander in Babylon

  Miscellaneous 4th Century

• Florence B. Anderson, Garland of Defeat
• W.A. Becker, Charicles
• The Sand-Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw about Archimedes
• Margaret Doody, Aristotle and Stephanos series
• *Aristotle Detective
• *Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin
• *Aristotle and Poetic Justice
• *Aristotle and the Secrets of Life
• *Anello di bronzo
• *Poison in Athens
• *Mysteries of Eleusis
• John Gardner, The Wreckage of Agathon
• Bryher, Gate to the Sea
• Noel B. Gerson, The Golden Lyre
• Don Harrison,
• *The Spartan
• *The Lion Warriors
• Basil Kazandzis, The Good and the Beautiful
• William Kotzwinkle, Night-Book
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Tyrant
• Ursule Molinaro, The New Moon with the Old Moon in her Arms
• Mary Ray, Sword Sleep
• Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo
• Katherine Roberts, The Olympic Conspiracy
• Barnaby Ross, The Scrolls of Lysis
• José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
• L. Sprague de Camp
• *The Arrows of Hercules
• *An Elephant for Aristotle
• F. Van Wyck Mason, Lysander
• Peter Vansittart, A Choice of Murder

  Hellenistic

• Gillian Bradshaw, The Sand-Reckoner
• Chaereas and Callirhoe, by Chariton of Aphrodisias
• Tyrant, by Christian Cameron
• *Tyrant
• *Storm of Arrows
• *Funeral Games
• *King of the Bosporus
• *Destroyer of Cities
• *Force of Kings
• A. Dickeson, Tychiades
• Alfred Duggan, Elephants and Castles
• Georg Ebers,
• *The Sisters
• *Arachne
• I.O. Evans, Strange Devices
• Vardis Fisher, Island of the Innocent
• A.H. Gilkes, Four Sons
• William Golding, The Double Tongue
• Joan Grant, Return to Elysium
• Timoleon, by G.A.Howkins
• H.D., Hedylus
• Jack Lindsay, Come Home at Last
• Marjorie Livingston, Delphic Echo
• Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen
• Ernest Moss, Hannibal's Last Elephant
• Eden Phillpotts, The Treasures of Typhon
• Mary Ray, The Windows of Elissa
• Carolyn Dale Snedeker, Forgotten Daughter
• L. Sprague de Camp,
• *The Bronze God of Rhodes
• *The Golden Wind
• Duncan Sprott,
• *The House of the Eagle
• *Daughter of the Crocodile
• H.N. Turteltaub, "Hellenic Traders" series, set some time after the death of Alexander
• *Over the Wine Dark Sea
• *The Gryphon's Skull
• *The Sacred Land
• *Owls to Athens
• Agnes Vaughan, Akka, Dwarf of Syracuse
• Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros''

  1st Century BCE

• The Double Tongue, by William Golding

  2nd Century CE

• The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, by Achilles Tatius
• Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus
• Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea, by Heliodorus of Emesa
• True History, by Lucian, not necessarily set anywhere near Greece

  Short stories

• Helike, by Claire Catacouzinos
• Taras' Parthenians, by Claire Catacouzinos
• Golden Drachmas, by Claire Catacouzinos

  Films

• 300
• 300 Spartans, The
• Alexander
• Alexander the Great
• Antigone
• Clash of the Titans
• Clash of the Titans
• Colossus of Rhodes, The
• Helen of Troy
• Helen of Troy
• Hercules
• Hercules, A Disney film.
• Immortals
• Jason and the Argonauts
• Minotaur
• Socrates
• Ulysses
• Troy
• Wrath of the Titans

  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

• Acropolis Now by Lynne Truss

  Comics

• 300 by Frank Miller
• Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
• The Iliad by Marvel Illustrated
• The Odyssey by Marvel Illustrated
• The Trojan War by Marvel Illustrated

  Video games

• Age of Empires
• Age of Mythology
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• Apotheon
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Battle of Olympus
• God of War
• Fate of Hellas
• Phelios
• Rampage Through Time
• Rise of the Argonauts
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• Titan Quest
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• Television

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• The Odyssey
• Atlantis