Fiction set in Classical Greece or Rome

Books in our library which are set in the Classical World.

Updated December 11, 2024
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The silence of the girls /
Barker, Pat,
Paper Book
A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times   Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we've never...
The voyage home :
Barker, Pat,
Paper Book
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series. In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker skillfully reimagines Greek mythology, chronicling a perilous journey undertaken by the enslaved healer Ritsa and her cruel...
The women of Troy /
Barker, Pat,
Paper Book
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and "one of contemporary literature's most thoughtful...
Clytemnestra /
Casati, Costanza,
Paper Book
"Fans of Circe and Elektra should pick up this powerful Greek myth retelling." --Cosmopolitan For fans of Madeline Miller, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious villainess of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for...
I, Claudius
Graves, Robert,
CD
The March to Glory
Dictator /
Harris, Robert,
Paper Book
Imperium . . . Conspirata . . . and now Dictator--the long-awaited final volume of Robert Harris's magnificent Ancient Rome Trilogy   At the age of forty-eight, Cicero--the greatest orator of his time--is in exile, separated from his wife and children,...
Stone blind /
Haynes, Natalie.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 "Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories."--Telegraph (UK) The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly...
Glorious exploits :
Lennon, Ferdia,
Paper Book
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year by the Irish Book Awards Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction Prize Nominated...
Circe /
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios,...
The song of Achilles /
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller "At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art....A book I could not put down." --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the...
Gates of fire :
Pressfield, Steven.
Paper Book
Thousands of years ago, Herodotus and Plutarch immortalized Spartan society in their histories; but today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this momentous culture.  One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has survived lies scores of miles away...

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