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
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
Theseus: The King Who Killed the
Minotaur 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, The Sea Kings:
The Prophecy
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
Hercules, Jason et al. 
Hercules - Sportsman by Bertram Atkey
The Amazons by Ivor Bannet
John Gregory Betancourt,
Hercules: The Gates of Hades
Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera
Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon
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
Medea: A Novel 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, Dr Who: The Myth Makers
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,
Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
Troy: Shield of Thunder
Adèle Geras, Troy
Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan
Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy
Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior
William Harwood, The Mycenaean Chronicle
The Rage of Achilles, by Terence Hawkins
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, Warrior's Captive: I,
Briseis
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
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, Penelope's Man: The Homing
Instinct
Francis Fénelon, 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, Cyclops: Misfit?
Monster? Mystic?
Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island
Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis,
Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All
Odysseus: The Journey through Hell
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 )Maurice Kessel), The
Memoirs of Zeus
John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess
Oracle, by Jackie French
Priscilla Galloway & Normand Cousineau,
Atalanta: The Fastest Runner in the
World
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, Power Dreamers: The
Jocasta Complex
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
)2002)
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,
Hercules - The Legendary Journeys: By
the Sword
Hercules - The Legendary Journeys:
Serpent's Shadow
Hercules -The Legendary Journeys: The
Eye of the Ram
Ru Emerson,
Xena - Warrior Princess: The Thief of
Hermes
Xena - Warrior Princess: The Huntress
and the Sphinx
Xena - Warrior Princess: Warrior
Princess Hunter
Xena - Warrior Princess: Questward Ho!
Xena - Warrior Princess: The Empty
Throne
Daniel J. Fingeroth, Young Hercules:
Mission from Zeus
Stella Howard, Xena - Warrior Princes:
Prophecy of Darkness
Hunter Kennedy, Hercules and the Geek of
Greece
Mel Odom, Young Hercules
David Seider, Hercules - The Legendary
Journeys: The First Casualty
= 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
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
The Plot to Save Socrates, by Paul
Levinson
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
The Crown of Violet aka Web of Traitors,
by Geoffrey Trease
Miscellaneous 5th Century 
Helena Carus, Artemis, Fare Thee Well
A.J. Church, Callias: A Tale of the Fall
of Athens
I.O. Evans, Olympic Runner
Charles Kelsey Gaines, Gorgo of Old
Athens
Celestial Matters, by Richard Garfinkle
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
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Naomi Mitchison
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
Hoplite: Torch of Prometheus, by Michael
Pritsos
The Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault
The Praise Singer, by Mary Renault
Caroline Dale Snedeker, Theras and his
Town
The Athenian Murders, by José Carlos
Somoza
Henry de Vere Stacpoole, The Street of
the Flute-Player
Donald Suddaby, Crowned with Wild Olive
Geoffrey Trease,
Web of Traitors
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
The Ten Thousand, by Michael Curtis Ford
Stephen Marlowe, The Shining
Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes,
by Xenophon of Ephesus
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
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,
Alexander: Child of a Dream
Alexander: The Sands of Ammon
Alexander: The Ends of the Earth
Klaus Mann, Alexander: a Novel of Utopia
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
Memnon, by Scott Oden
Robert Payne, Alexander the God
Alfred Powers, Alexander's Horses
The Virtues of War, by Steven Pressfield
Limbica Celea Reges, A Legend of Topaz
Eyes
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
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
Films 
300
300: Rise of an Empire
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
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
Atlantis
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
