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Books set in Ancient Greece

  • Submitted: 22nd August 2025

Books set in Ancient Greece

Books set in ancient Greek should be in display cases like in museums. Not only are they beautiful and hark back to a past we will never get to visit in real life, but they are amazing insights into a lost world.

 

books set in Greece

 

Babylonia – Costanza Casati

Ancient Assyria, 9th century BC:  The Queen who rose from nothing – and changed everything .

 

 

Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons

51 to 30 BC: A retelling of the story of the legendary Egyptian queen…

 

 

books set in Greece

 

Atalanta – Jennifer Saint

The heroic story of the only female Argonaut

 

Elektra – Jennifer Saint

The House of Atreus is cursed….

And one that is important for the heritage and the cultural lessons within…..

 

 

 

The Figurine Victoria Hislop

The questionable acquisition of cultural treasures and the price people – and countries – will pay to cling on to them.
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