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 Peter Huby (2000)
• Story for Icarus by Ernst Schnabel (1958)

Theseus, Ariadne, Phaedra

• June Rachuy Brindel
  • Ariadne (1980)
  • Phaedra (1985)
• Black Sail by Florence B. Anderson (1948)
• Ariadne and the Bull by Eleanor Farjeon (1945)
• Theseus by André Gide (1946)
• Mystery at Mycenae by Roger Lancelyn Green (1957)
• Children of Ancient Greece by Louise Lamprey (1924)
• Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield (2002)
• Mary Renault, "Thesead"
  • The King Must Die (1958)
  • The Bull from the Sea (1962)
• Theseus: The King Who Killed the Minotaur by Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis (1988)
• Ariadne's Web by Fred Saberhagen (2000)
• The Way of Danger by Ian Serraillier (1962)
• Five Miles from Candia by Althea Urn (1959)

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)

Hercules, Jason et al.

• Hercules - Sportsman by Bertram Atkey (1922)
• The Amazons by Ivor Bannet (1948)
• A Man Was Going Down the Road by Otar Chiladze (1973)
• John Gregory Betancourt,
  • Hercules: The Gates of Hades (2001)
  • Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera (1997)
  • Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon (1997)
• Voyage with Jason by Ken Catran (2000)
• Keith R.A. DeCandido,
  • Cheiron's Warriors (1999)
  • The Ares Alliance (2000)
• Corydon and the Island of Monsters by Tobias Druitt (2005)
• The Golden Fleece (U.K.) aka Hercules, My Shipmate (USA) by Robert Graves (1945)
• Medea by Kerry Greenwood (1997)
• Earth Giant by Edison Marshall (1960)
• Fred Saberhagen,
  • God of the Golden Fleece (2001)
  • The Arms of Hercules (2000)
  • The Face of Apollo (1999)
• The Clashing Rocks by Ian Serraillier (1963)
• Medea by Miranda Seymour (1972)
• Jason by Henry Treece (1961)
• Jason! by Leonard Colston West (2005)
• Medea: A Novel by Christa Wolf (1998)
• Jason and the Gorgon's Blood by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris (2004)

Trojan War

• George Baker, Fidus Achates (1944)
• The Firebrand, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1987)
• Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home (1980)
• Brady Quinlan Brown, Honoured by Man (2002)
• Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy (2004)
• Achilles, by Elizabeth Cook (2003)
• Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday (2002), (aka On the Seas to Troy UK 2004)
• Donald Cotton, Dr Who: The Myth Makers (1965)
• H.C. Crew, The Trojan Boy and other stories (1928)
• Susan Curran, The Mouse God (1986)
• Lawton V. Evans, Heroes of Troy (1924)
• Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War (1971)
• Sarah B. Franklin (Dave Duncan), Daughter of Troy (1998)
• David Gemmell,
  • Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
  • Troy: Shield of Thunder (2006)
• Adèle Geras, Troy (2000)
• Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan (1962)
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1961)
• Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior (2004)
• William Harwood, The Mycenaean Chronicle (2001)
• The Rage of Achilles, by Terence Hawkins (2009)
• Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood (2006)
• Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover (1931)
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy (2004)
• Richard Matturro, Troy (1989)
• Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy (1998)
• Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander (1933)
• Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight (1998)
• Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937)
• Phillip Parotti,
  • The Greek Generals Talk (1986)
  • The Trojan Generals Talk (1988)
• Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970)
• Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937)
• Jackie Rose, Warrior's Captive: I, Briseis (e-book, 2004)
• Alan Sims, Phoinix (1928)
• S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986)
• S. M. Stirling,
  • Against the Tide of Years (1999)
  • On the Oceans of Eternity (2000)
• Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916)
• Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967)
• Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (2002)
• Agnes Vaughan, Within the Walls (1935)
• Tyrone Walls, To Die Like an Amazon (2002)

Helen

• Linda Cargill, To Follow the Goddess (1991)
• Diana M. Concannon, Helen's Passage (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)
• Eva Hemmer Hansen, Scandal in Troy (1956)
• Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965)
• Richard Purtill, The Mirror of Helen (1983)
• Miranda Seymour, Goddess (1979)
• Florence Wallin, According to Helen (1997)
• Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)

Cassandra

• Hilary Bailey, Cassandra, Princess of Troy (1993)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987)
• Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra (1995)
• Ursule Molinaro, The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy (1979)
• Georgia Sallaska, Priam's Daughter (1970)
• Christa Wolf, Cassandra (1983)

Odysseus

• Alison B. Alessios, Spear of Ulysses (1941)
• John Arden, Cogs Tyrannic (1991)
• Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005)
• Lindsay Clarke, The Return from Troy (2005)
• H.C. Crew, The Lost King (1929)
• John Erskine, Penelope's Man: The Homing Instinct (1928)
• Francis Fénelon, Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
• Michael Gall, A Bedside Odyssey (1962)
• Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau, Aleta and the Queen (1995)
• Adèle Geras, Ithaka (2000)
• Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter (1955)
• Eyvind Johansson, Return to Ithaca (1952)
• Jerry McGinley, Cyclops: Misfit? Monster? Mystic? (2002)
• Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island (1926)
• Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis,
  • Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All (1986)
  • Odysseus: The Journey through Hell (1987)
• Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls (2004)
• Ernst Schnabel, The Voyage Home (1958)
• Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001)

Miscellaneous Mycenaean

• George Baker,
  • Cry Hylas on the Hills (1945)
  • Whom Athene Loved (1950)
  • Son of Hylas (1952)
  • The Last Shore (1953)
• Ivor Bannett, The Arrows of the Sun (1949)
• John Barth, Chimera (1972)
• Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993)
• Paul Capon,
  • Warrior's Moon (1960)
  • Lord of the Chariots (1962)
• Maurice Druon )Maurice Kessel), The Memoirs of Zeus (1964)
• John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess (1949)
• Oracle, by Jackie French (2010)
• Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau, Atalanta: The Fastest Runner in the World (1995)
• Muriel Gantry, The Distance Never Changes (1965)
• Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen,
  • The God beneath the Sea (1972)
  • The Golden Shadow (1973)
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North (1958)
• Kerry Greenwood, Electra (1996)
• Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste )2004)
• Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs (1928)
• Ursule Molinaro, Power Dreamers: The Jocasta Complex (1995)
• DeWolfe Morgan, Before Homer (1938)
• Myron Palmer, At the Lion Gate (1962)
• Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky (1990)
• John Cowper Powys, Atlantis (1954)
• Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons )2002)
• Mary Ray,
  • Standing Lions (1968)
  • Shout against the Wind (1970)
  • Song of Thunder (1978)
  • The Golden Bees (1984)
• Georgia Sallaska,
  • Three Ships and Three Kings (1969)
  • The Last Heracles (1974)
• J.G. Sarasin (Geraldine Gordon Salmon), The Man from Troy (1938)
• Gladys Schmitt, Electra (1966)
• Ian Serraillier, The Gorgon's Head (1961)
• George Shipway,
  • Warrior in Bronze (1977)
  • King in Splendour (1979)
• Henry Treece,
  • The Golden One (1961)
  • Electra (1963)
  • Oedipus (1964)

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)

Archaic Greece

Sappho

• Betty Askwith, Erinna (1937)
• Michael Darius (Alexander Trocchi), Sappho of Lesbos (1960)
• Ellen Frye, The Other Sappho (1989)
• Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite (1965)
• Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap (2003)
• Alexander Krislov, No Man Sings (1956)
• Corbie Petulengro, Slave Girls of Lesbos (e-book, 2001)
• Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho (1974)
• Thomas Burnett Swann, Wolfwinter (1972)

Aesop

• John Vornholt, The Fabulist (1993)
• A.D. Wintle, Aesop (1943)

Miscellaneous Archaic

• Helena Carus, Metten of Tyre (1930)
• Martha Battle, Homer Realized (2005)
• Georg Ebers, An Egyptian Princess (1864)
• Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite (1886)
• Michael B. Edwards, Murder at the Panionic Games (2001)
• Nigel Frith, Olympiad (1988)
• Karlheinz Grosser, Tamburas (1967)
• Tom Holt, Olympiad (2000)
• David Pownall, The Sphinx and the Sybarites (1993)
• Mary Ray, The Voice of Apollo (1964)
• Mary Renault, The Praise Singer (1979)
• Werner Schmidlin, The Lion of the New Dawn (2001)
• George R. Stewart, Years of the City (1955)
• Ivan Yeframov, Land of Foam (1958)

5th Century BCE

Persian Wars

• John Buchan, The Moon Endureth (The Lemnian) (1912)
• John Burke, The Lion of Sparta (1961)
• A.J. Church, Three Greek Children (1889)
• A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles, by William Stearns Davis (1907)
• Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis (1923)
• Kenneth Lillington, Young Man of Morning (1979)
• Edward Bulwer Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan (1873)
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan (2002)
• In Kithairon's Shadow, by Jon Edward Martin (2003)
• Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta (1962)
• Margarett Mirley,
  • The Leave-Takers (2004)
  • Dream-Thoughts (2004)
  • Trysts (2004)
• Stephanie Plowman, The Road to Sardis (1965)
• Stephen Pressfield, Gates of Fire (1998)
• Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway (1964)
• Caroline Dale Snedeker,
  • The Perilous Seat (1923)
  • The Spartan (1911)
• The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate by L. Sprague de Camp (1961)
• Gore Vidal, Creation (1982)
• Jill Paton Walsh, Farewell, Great King (1972)
• Gene Wolfe,
  • Soldier of the Mist (1986)
  • Soldier of Arete (1989)
  • Soldier of Sidon (2006)

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

• Gertrude Atherton, The Jealous Gods (1928)
• Charles H. Bromby, Alkibiades (1905)
• Vincenz Brun,
  • Alcibiades, beloved of Gods and Men (1935)
  • Alcibiades, forsaken by Gods and Men (1936)
• Daniel Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele (2002)
• Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods (1908)
• Peter Green, Achilles his Armour (1955)
• Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet Crown (1954)
• M. Pardoe, Argle's Oracle (1959)
• Steven Pressfield, Tides of War (2000)
• C.E. Robinson, The Days of Alcibiades (1925)
• Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis (1969)

Socrates

• O.F. Grazebrook, Socrates among his Peers (1927)
• The Plot to Save Socrates, by Paul Levinson (2006)
• A.C. Malcom, O Men of Athens (1947)
• Cora Mason, Socrates (1953)
• Fritz Mauthner, Mrs. Socrates (1926)
• Robert Pick, The Escape of Socrates (1954)
• Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine (1956)
• The Crown of Violet aka Web of Traitors (USA), by Geoffrey Trease (1952)

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)
• Celestial Matters, by Richard Garfinkle (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)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Naomi Mitchison (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)
• Hoplite: Torch of Prometheus, by Michael Pritsos (2008)
• The Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault (1966)
• The Praise Singer, by Mary Renault
• Caroline Dale Snedeker, Theras and his Town (1925)
• The Athenian Murders, by José Carlos Somoza (2002)
• Henry de Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player (1912)
• Donald Suddaby, Crowned with Wild Olive (1961)
• Geoffrey Trease,
  • Web of Traitors (1952)
  • 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)

4th Century BCE

Xenophon

• J. Barbary, Ten Thousand Heroes (1963)
• The Ten Thousand, by Michael Curtis Ford (2001)
• Stephen Marlowe, The Shining (1963)
• Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, by Xenophon of Ephesus (2nd century)

Alexander the Great

• Anna Apostolou,
  • A Murder in Macedon (1997)
  • A Murder in Thebes (1998)
• Konrad Bercovici, Alexander (1928)
• Ben Bova, Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
• Mary Butts, The Macedonian (1933)
• A.J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great (1890)
• Paul Doherty
  • The House of Death (2001)
  • The Godless Man (2002)
  • The Gates of Hell (2003)
• Michael A. Dimitri, The Daughter of Neoptolemus (1993)
• Maurice Druon (Maurice Kessel), Alexander the God (1960)
• Karl V. Eiker, Star of Macedon (1957)
• Judith French, The Conqueror (2003)
• Robert H. Fuller, The Golden Hope (1905)
• David Gemmell,
  • Lion of Macedon (1990)
  • Dark Prince (1993)
• G.A. Hauser, In the Shadow of Alexander (2003)
• Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End (1999)
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great (1941)
• Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (1946)
• Merline Lovelace, Lady of the Upper Kingdom (1996)
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi,
  • Alexander: Child of a Dream (2001)
  • Alexander: The Sands of Ammon (2001)
  • Alexander: The Ends of the Earth (2001)
• Klaus Mann, Alexander: a Novel of Utopia (1929)
• Edison Marshall, The Conqueror (1962)
• Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women (1965)
• Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great (1960)
• Helga Moray,
  • I, Roxana (1965)
  • A Son for Roxana (1971)
  • Roxana and Alexander (1971)
• Marshall Monroe Kirkman,
  • Iskander (1903)
  • The Romance of Alexander and Roxana (1909)
  • The Romance of Alexander the King (1909)
• Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes (2004)
• Memnon, by Scott Oden (2006)
• Robert Payne, Alexander the God (1954)
• Alfred Powers, Alexander's Horses (1959)
• The Virtues of War, by Steven Pressfield (2005)
• Limbica Celea Reges, A Legend of Topaz Eyes (1989)
• 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, A Choice of Destinies (1986)
• Susan Spitzer, In the Shadow of a God (1984)
• Thomas Sundell, A Bloodline of Kings (2001)
• Judith Tarr,
  • Lord of the Two Lands (1993)
  • Queen of the Amazons (2004)
• Jakob Wasserman, Alexander in Babylon (1949)

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
  • The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
  • An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)
• 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)
• A. Dickeson, Tychiades (1903)
• Alfred Duggan, Elephants and Castles (1963)
• Georg Ebers,
  • The Sisters (1880)
  • Arachne (1898)
• 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,
  • The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)
  • The Golden Wind (1969)
• 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
  • Over the Wine Dark Sea (2001)
  • The Gryphon's Skull (2002)
  • The Sacred Land (2003)
  • Owls to Athens (2004)
• Agnes Vaughan, Akka, Dwarf of Syracuse (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 Claire Catacouzinos (The Quarry Journal, 2012)
• Taras' Parthenians, by Claire Catacouzinos (The Quarry Journal, 2014)
• Golden Drachmas, by Claire Catacouzinos (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

• 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
• Ancient Wars: Sparta
• Apotheon
• 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

• Xena: Warrior Princess
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
• The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
• Atlantis (TV series)

See also

• Fiction set in Ancient Rome
• Fiction set in the Roman empire
• List of historical fiction by time period

External links

• Ancient Greece in fiction

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