Ancient Greece Booklist
World History > Classical Age > Ancient Greece (2700 BCE-600 CE)
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BCE to the end of antiquity (c. 600 CE). This era was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the 5th to 4th centuries BCE. The conquests of Alexander the Great of Macedon spread Hellenistic civilization from the western Mediterranean to Central Asia. The Hellenistic period ended with the conquest of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic, and the annexation of the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece, and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire.
Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on Ancient Rome, which carried a version of it throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe. For this reason, Classical Greece is generally considered the cradle of Western civilization, the seminal culture from which the modern West derives many of its founding archetypes and ideas in politics, philosophy, science, and art.
Book recommendations pertaining to Ancient Greece.
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Bull | Elliott, David | 2019 | YA | Classical Age | 3000 BCE | Europe | Greece | Athens Theseus and the Minotaur | M | N |
The Song of Achilles | Miller, Madeline | 2012 | YA A | Classical Age | 1200 BCE | Europe | Greece | Achilles LGBTQ+ Greek Mythology | M | N |
The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War | Little, Emily | 1988 | LE MG | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | NF | CB ER |
Inside the Walls of Troy | McLaren, Clemence | 1996 | YA | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
Helen of Troy | George, Margaret | 1997 | A | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War Helen of Troy | F Bio | N |
A Thousand Ships | Haynes, Natalie | 2021 | YA A | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
The Trojan War | Colidge, Olivia | 2001 | UMG YA | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | CB |
The Silence of the Girls | Barker, Pat | 2019 | YA A | Classical Age | 1194–1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1 | Pope Osborne, Mary | 2010 | MG | Classical Age | 1184-1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | CB |
Waiting for Odysseus | McLaren, Clemence | 2000 | YA | Classical Age | 1184–1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
The Adventures of Odysseus | Lupton, Hugh | 2012 | MG | Classical Age | 1184-1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | PB CB |
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad | Sutcliff, Rosemary | 2005 | MG UMG | Classical Age | 1184 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2 | Pope Osborne, Mary | 2010 | MG | Classical Age | 1184-1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | CB |
The Iliad and the Odyssey | Williams, Marcia | 2006 | LE MG | Classical Age | 1184-1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Achilles Trojan War | PB | |
The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey | Sutcliff, Rosemary | 2005 | MG UMG | Classical Age | 1184-1174 BCE | Europe | Greece | Trojan War | M | N |
Quiver | Spinner, Stephanie | 2002 | UMG YA | Classical Age | 900-800 BCE | Europe | Greece | Greek Mythology | M F HF | N |
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths | D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar | 1992 | LE MG | Classical Age | 900–850 BCE | Europe | Greece | Greek Mythology | M | PB |
Explore Ancient Greece! | Van Vleet, Carmella | 2008 | LE MG | Classical Age | 800–150 BCE | Europe | Greece | Ancient Greece | NF | PB |
Circe | Miller, Madeline | 2018 | YA A | Classical Age | 800 BCE | Europe | Greece | Greek Mythology | M | N |
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Greek Athlete | Ford, Michael | 2014 | LE MG | Classical Age | 776 BCE | Europe | Greece | Olympics | NF | PB |
What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? | Ellis, Julie | 2004 | LE | Classical Age | 570-495 BCE | Europe | Greece | Mathematics Pythagoras | NF Bio | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece | Macdonald, Fiona | 2013 | LE MG | Classical Age | 500-401 BCE | Europe | Greece | Ancient Greece | NF | PB |
Daughter of Sparta | Andrews, Claire | 2021 | YA A | Classical Age | 400 BCE | Europe | Greece | Sparta | M | N |
Alexander the Great: Master of the Ancient World | Bendick, Jeanne | 2010 | UMG YA | Classical Age | 356-323 BCE | Europe | Greece | Macedonia Alexander the Great | NF Bio | CB |
The Sand-Reckoner | Bradshaw, Gillian | 2001 | YA A | Classical Age | 287-212 BCE | Europe | Greece | Mathematics | F | N |
Archimedes and the Door of Science | Bendick, Jeanne | 1995 | UMG | Classical Age | 287-212 BCE | Europe | Greece | Mathematics | NF Bio | CB |
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth | Lasky, Kathryn | 1994 | LE | Classical Age | 276-194 BCE | Europe | Greece | Mathematics Eratosthenes | NF Bio | PB |
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |