List of Historical Novels - Greece

Greece

  • Hades' Daughter by Sara Douglass (classical antiquity)
  • Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield
  • Pericles the Athenian by Rex Warner
  • The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos
  • Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (World War I and Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922))
  • The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos by Peter Green (1993)
  • The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Athens in the time of Socrates)
  • The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault (Greek theatre, 4th century BC)
  • The Athenian Murders (La caverna de las ideas) by Jose Carlos Somoza (classical antiquity)
  • Alexandros by Valerio Massimo Manfredi (Alexander the Great)
  1. Child of a Dream
  2. The Sands of Ammon
  3. The Ends of the Earth
  • The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (the life of Alexander the Great)
  • Lion Of Macedon by David Gemmell(Alexander's general Parmenion)
  • Dark Prince by David Gemmell (sequel to Lion of Macedon)
  • Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (Alexander the Great)
  • Funeral Games by Mary Renault (the successors of Alexander)
  • Voice of the Goddess by Judith Hand (set in Crete in the Bronze Age)
  • Elephants and Castles by Alfred Duggan,1963 (Demetrius I of Macedon)
  • Goat Song by Frank Yerby, 1967 (set during the Peloponnesian War)
  • Salamina by Javier Negrete, (Second Persian invasion of Greece, Themistocles)
  • La joven de Esparta by Cristina Rodriguez
  • El agua y la tierra by Julio Murillo
  • Sword of Marathon by Jack England
  • Los milagros del vino by Jesús Sánchez Adalid (Corinth, 1th century AC)

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