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
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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List of abbreviations:

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