List of fiction set in ancient Greece

Books

Bronze Age and mythistoricals

Atlantis

• Poul Anderson, ''The Dancer from Atlantis''

Crete

Daedalus

• Michael Ayrton
• * The Testament of Daedalus
• * The Maze Maker
• Erick Berry, Winged Girl of Knossos
• Ernst Schnabel, ''Story for Icarus''

  Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra

• Eleanor Farjeon, Ariadne and the Bull
• André Gide, Theseus
• Roger Lancelyn Green, Mystery at Mycenae
• Madeline Miller, Circe
• Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons
• Mary Renault, "Thesead"
• * The King Must Die
• * The Bull from the Sea
• Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis, Theseus: The King Who Killed the Minotaur
• Fred Saberhagen, Ariadne's Web
• Ian Serraillier, The Way of Danger
• Althea Urn, ''Five Miles from Candia''

  Miscellaneous Minoan

• Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull
• Paul Capon, The Kingdom of the Bulls
• Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel
• Nikos Kazantzakis, At the Palaces of Knossos
• Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Birth of the Gods
• 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.

• Ivor Bannet, The Amazons
• Otar Chiladze, A Man Was Going Down the Road
• John Gregory Betancourt
• * Hercules: The Gates of Hades
• * Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera
• * Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon
• Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
• Ken Catran, Voyage with Jason
• Keith DeCandido
• * Cheiron's Warriors
• * The Ares Alliance
• Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters
• Robert Graves, The Golden Fleece aka Hercules, My Shipmate
• Kerry Greenwood, Medea
• Edison Marshall, Earth Giant
• Fred Saberhagen
• * God of the Golden Fleece
• * The Arms of Hercules
• * The Face of Apollo
• Ian Serraillier, The Clashing Rocks
• Miranda Seymour, Medea
• Henry Treece, Jason
• Christa Wolf, Medea: A Novel
• Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, ''Jason and the Gorgon's Blood''

Trojan War

• Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls
• Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand
• Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home
• Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy
• Elizabeth Cook, Achilles
• Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday
• Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial
• Gordon Doherty
• * The Crimson Throne
• * The Shadow of Troy
• * The Dark Earth
• Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War
• David Gemmell
• * Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
• * Troy: Shield of Thunder
• * Troy: Fall of Kings
• Adèle Geras, Troy
• Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy
• Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior
• Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles
• Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships
• Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood
• Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy
• Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy
• Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander
• Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight
• Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
• 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
• 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
• Tyrone Walls, ''To Die Like an Amazon''

Helen

• 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
• 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

• 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
• François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus
• Adèle Geras, Ithaka
• Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter
• Eyvind Johansson, Return to Ithaca
• 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

• John Barth, Chimera
• Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
• Paul Capon
• * Warrior's Moon
• * Lord of the Chariots
• Maurice Druon, The Memoirs of Zeus
• John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess
• Jackie French, Oracle
• Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North
• Kerry Greenwood, Electra
• Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste
• Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs
• Ursule Molinaro, Power Dreamers: The Jocasta Complex
• Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky
• John Cowper Powys, Atlantis
• Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons
• Mary Ray
• * Standing Lions
• * Shout against the Wind
• * Song of Thunder
• * The Golden Bees
• Georgia Sallaska
• * Three Ships and Three Kings
• * The Last Heracles
• 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

• Mel Odom, ''Young Hercules''

Archaic Greece

Sappho

• Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite
• Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap
• Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho
• Thomas Burnett Swann, ''Wolfwinter''

Aesop

• John Vornholt, ''The Fabulist''

Miscellaneous Archaic

• Georg Ebers, An Egyptian Princess
• Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite
• Nigel Frith, Olympiad
• Tom Holt, Olympiad
• David Pownall, The Sphinx and the Sybarites
• Mary Ray, The Voice of Apollo
• Mary Renault, The Praise Singer
• George R. Stewart, Years of the City
• Ivan Yefremov, ''The Land of Foam''

5th century BCE

Persian Wars

• John Buchan, The Moon Endureth
• John Burke, The Lion of Sparta
• Christian Cameron, The Long War
• * Killer of Men
• * Marathon
• * Poseidon's Spear
• * The Great King
• * Salamis
• * The Rage of Ares
• William Stearns Davis, A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles
• Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan
• Jon Edward Martin, In Kithairon's Shadow
• Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta
• Margarett Mirley
• * The Leave-Takers
• * Dream-Thoughts
• * Trysts
• Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire
• Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway
• Caroline Snedeker
• * The Perilous Seat
• * The Spartan
• L. Sprague de Camp, The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rosemary Sutcliff, ''The Flowers of Adonis''

[Socrates]

• Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates
• Cora Mason, Socrates
• Fritz Mauthner, Mrs. Socrates
• Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine
• Geoffrey Trease, The Crown of Violet aka ''Web of Traitors''

Miscellaneous 5th century

• A. J. Church, Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens
• I. O. Evans, Olympic Runner
• Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
• Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series
• * Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens
• * The Walled Orchard
• John Galen Howard, Pheidias
• Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover
• Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution
• Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis
• Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive
• Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land
• George Moore, Aphrodite in Aulis
• Nicholas Nicastro, The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta
• Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus
• Mary Renault
• * The Mask of Apollo
• * The Praise Singer
• Caroline Snedeker, Theras and His Town
• José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders
• Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player
• Arthur S. Way, Sons of the Violet-Crowned
• Christoph Martin Wieland,
• * The Story of Agathon
• * The Republic of Fools
• Frank Yerby, ''Goat Song''

4th century BCE

Xenophon

• Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand
• Xenophon of Ephesus, ''Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes''

Epaminondas

• Victor Davis Hanson, ''The End of Sparta''

Philip II of Macedon

• Nicholas Guild, ''The Macedonian ''

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
• Christian Cameron, God of War
• A. J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great
• Paul C. Doherty
• * The House of Death
• * The Godless Man
• * The Gates of Hell
• Maurice Druon, Alexander the God
• David Gemmell
• * Lion of Macedon
• * Dark Prince
• Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great
• Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon
• 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 1929)
• Edison Marshall, The Conqueror
• Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women
• Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great
• Marshall Monroe Kirkman
• * Iskander
• * The Romance of Alexander and Roxana
• * The Romance of Alexander the King
• Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes
• Scott Oden, Memnon
• Robert Payne, Alexander the God
• Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War
• 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
• Judith Tarr
• * Lord of the Two Lands
• * Queen of the Amazons
• Jakob Wasserman, Alexander in Babylon
• Ivan Yefremov, ''Thais of Athens''

Miscellaneous 4th century

• Gillian Bradshaw, The Sand-Reckoner about Archimedes
• Bryher, Gate to the Sea
• 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
• Noel Gerson, The Golden Lyre
• William Kotzwinkle, Night Book
• Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Tyrant
• Ursule Molinaro, The New Moon with the Old Moon in Her Arms
• Mary Renault, 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
• Chariton of Aphrodisias, Chaereas and Callirhoe
• Christian Cameron
• * Tyrant
• * Storm of Arrows
• * Funeral Games
• * King of the Bosporus
• * Destroyer of Cities
• * Force of Kings
• Alfred Duggan, Elephants and Castles
• Georg Ebers
• * The Sisters
• * Arachne
• I. O. Evans, Strange Devices
• Vardis Fisher, The Island of the Innocent
• William Golding, The Double Tongue
• Joan Grant, Return to Elysium
• H.D., Hedylus
• Jack Lindsay, Come Home at Last
• Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen
• Eden Phillpotts, The Treasures of Typhon
• Carolyn Snedeker, The 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
• Thornton Wilder, ''The Woman of Andros''

1st century BCE

• William Golding, ''The Double Tongue''

2nd century CE

• Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon
• Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea
• Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
• Lucian, True History, not necessarily set anywhere near Greece

Plays

• Andrew David Irvine, Socrates on Trial
• Terence Rattigan, Adventure Story
• William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
• William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
• William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, ''The Two Noble Kinsmen''

Comics

• Marvel Illustrated, The Iliad
• Marvel Illustrated, The Odyssey
• Marvel Illustrated, The Trojan War
• Frank Miller, 300
• Eric Shanower, ''Age of Bronze''