List of fiction set in ancient Greece

There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms. Titles include:

Atlantis

 * Poul Anderson, The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)

Daedalus

 * Michael Ayrton
 * The Testament of Daedalus (1962)
 * The Maze Maker (1967)
 * Erick Berry, Winged Girl of Knossos (1933)
 * Ernst Schnabel, Story for Icarus (1958)

Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra

 * Eleanor Farjeon, Ariadne and the Bull (1945)
 * André Gide, Theseus (1946)
 * Roger Lancelyn Green, Mystery at Mycenae (1957)
 * Madeline Miller, Circe (2018)
 * Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002)
 * Mary Renault, "Thesead"
 * The King Must Die (1958)
 * The Bull from the Sea (1962)
 * Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis, Theseus: The King Who Killed the Minotaur (1988)
 * Fred Saberhagen, Ariadne's Web (2000)
 * Ian Serraillier, The Way of Danger (1962)
 * Althea Urn, Five Miles from Candia (1959)

Miscellaneous Minoan

 * Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull (1979)
 * Paul Capon, The Kingdom of the Bulls (1961)
 * Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel (1940)
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, At the Palaces of Knossos (1981)
 * Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Birth of the Gods (1924)
 * S.V. Peddle (Vince Peddle & Sandra Peddle), The Moon Maiden (2003)
 * Richard Purtill
 * The Golden Gryphon Feather (1979)
 * The Stolen Goddess (1980)
 * Thomas Burnett Swann
 * The Forest of Forever (1971)
 * Cry Silver Bells (1977)
 * The Day of the Minotaur (1966)
 * James Watson, The Bull Leapers (1970)

Hercules, Jason et al.

 * Ivor Bannet, The Amazons (1948)
 * Otar Chiladze, A Man Was Going Down the Road (1973)
 * John Gregory Betancourt
 * Hercules: The Gates of Hades (2001)
 * Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera (1997)
 * Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon (1997)
 * Ken Catran, Voyage with Jason (2000)
 * Keith DeCandido
 * Cheiron's Warriors (1999)
 * The Ares Alliance (2000)
 * Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters (2005)
 * Robert Graves, The Golden Fleece (U.K.) aka Hercules, My Shipmate (U.S.) (1945)
 * Kerry Greenwood, Medea (1997)
 * Edison Marshall, Earth Giant (1960)
 * Fred Saberhagen
 * God of the Golden Fleece (2001)
 * The Arms of Hercules (2000)
 * The Face of Apollo (1999)
 * Ian Serraillier, The Clashing Rocks (1963)
 * Miranda Seymour, Medea (1972)
 * Henry Treece, Jason (1961)
 * Christa Wolf, Medea: A Novel (1998)
 * Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Jason and the Gorgon's Blood (2004)

Trojan War

 * Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018)
 * Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987)
 * Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home (1980)
 * Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy (2004)
 * Elizabeth Cook, Achilles (2003)
 * Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday (2002) (aka On the Seas to Troy, UK, 2004)
 * Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial (1965)
 * Gordon Doherty
 * The Crimson Throne (2021)
 * The Shadow of Troy (2021)
 * The Dark Earth (2022)
 * Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War (1971)
 * David Gemmell
 * Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
 * Troy: Shield of Thunder (2006)
 * Adèle Geras, Troy (2000)
 * Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan (1962)
 * Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1961)
 * Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior (2004)
 * Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles (2009)
 * Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships (2019)
 * Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood (2006)
 * Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover (1931)
 * Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy (2004)
 * Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy (1998)
 * Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander (1933)
 * Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight (1998)
 * Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2011)
 * Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937)
 * Phillip Parotti
 * The Greek Generals Talk (1986)
 * The Trojan Generals Talk (1988)
 * Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970)
 * Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937)
 * S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986)
 * S. M. Stirling
 * Against the Tide of Years (1999)
 * On the Oceans of Eternity (2000)
 * Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916)
 * Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967)
 * Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (2002)
 * Tyrone Walls, To Die Like an Amazon (2002)

Helen

 * John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925)
 * Margaret George, Helen of Troy (2006)
 * H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire (1890)
 * Eva Hemmer Hansen, Scandal in Troy (1956)
 * Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965)
 * Richard Purtill, The Mirror of Helen (1983)
 * Miranda Seymour, Goddess (1979)
 * Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)

Cassandra

 * Hilary Bailey, Cassandra, Princess of Troy (1993)
 * Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987)
 * Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra (1995)
 * Ursule Molinaro, The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy (1979)
 * Georgia Sallaska, Priam's Daughter (1970)
 * Christa Wolf, Cassandra (1983)

Odysseus

 * John Arden, Cogs Tyrannic (1991)
 * Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005)
 * Lindsay Clarke, The Return from Troy (2005)
 * H. C. Crew, The Lost King (1929)
 * John Erskine, Penelope's Man: The Homing Instinct (1928)
 * François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
 * Adèle Geras, Ithaka (2000)
 * Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter (1955)
 * Eyvind Johansson, Return to Ithaca (1952)
 * Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island (1926)
 * Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis
 * Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All (1986)
 * Odysseus: The Journey through Hell (1987)
 * Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls (2004)
 * Ernst Schnabel, The Voyage Home (1958)
 * Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001)

Miscellaneous Mycenaean

 * John Barth, Chimera (1972)
 * Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993)
 * Paul Capon
 * Warrior's Moon (1960)
 * Lord of the Chariots (1962)
 * Maurice Druon, The Memoirs of Zeus (1964)
 * John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess (1949)
 * Jackie French, Oracle (2010)
 * Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North (1958)
 * Kerry Greenwood, Electra (1996)
 * Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste (2004)
 * Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs (1928)
 * Ursule Molinaro, Power Dreamers: The Jocasta Complex (1995)
 * Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky (1990)
 * John Cowper Powys, Atlantis (1954)
 * Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002)
 * Mary Ray
 * Standing Lions (1968)
 * Shout against the Wind (1970)
 * Song of Thunder (1978)
 * The Golden Bees (1984)
 * Georgia Sallaska
 * Three Ships and Three Kings (1969)
 * The Last Heracles (1974)
 * Gladys Schmitt, Electra (1966)
 * Ian Serraillier, The Gorgon's Head (1961)
 * George Shipway
 * Warrior in Bronze (1977)
 * King in Splendour (1979)
 * Henry Treece
 * The Golden One (1961)
 * Electra (1963)
 * Oedipus (1964)

Based on a television program

 * Mel Odom, Young Hercules (1999)

Sappho

 * Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite (1965)
 * Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap (2003)
 * Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho (1974)
 * Thomas Burnett Swann, Wolfwinter (1972)

Aesop

 * John Vornholt, The Fabulist (1993)

Miscellaneous Archaic

 * Georg Ebers, An Egyptian Princess (1864)
 * Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite (1886)
 * Nigel Frith, Olympiad (1988)
 * Tom Holt, Olympiad (2000)
 * David Pownall, The Sphinx and the Sybarites (1993)
 * Mary Ray, The Voice of Apollo (1964)
 * Mary Renault, The Praise Singer (1979)
 * George R. Stewart, Years of the City (1955)
 * Ivan Yefremov, The Land of Foam (1958)

Persian Wars

 * John Buchan, The Moon Endureth (short story "The Lemnian") (1912)
 * John Burke, The Lion of Sparta (1961)
 * Christian Cameron, The Long War
 * Killer of Men (2010)
 * Marathon (2011)
 * Poseidon's Spear (2012)
 * The Great King (2014)
 * Salamis (2015)
 * The Rage of Ares (2016)
 * William Stearns Davis, A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles (1907)
 * Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis (1923)
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan (1873)
 * Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan (2002)
 * Jon Edward Martin, In Kithairon's Shadow (2003)
 * Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta (1962)
 * Margarett Mirley
 * The Leave-Takers (2004)
 * Dream-Thoughts (2004)
 * Trysts (2004)
 * Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire (1998)
 * Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway (1964)
 * Caroline Snedeker
 * The Perilous Seat (1923)
 * The Spartan (1911)
 * L. Sprague de Camp, The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961)
 * Gore Vidal, Creation (1982)
 * Jill Paton Walsh, Farewell, Great King (1972)
 * Gene Wolfe
 * Soldier of the Mist (1986)
 * Soldier of Arete (1989)
 * Soldier of Sidon (2006)

Pericles and/or Aspasia

 * Gertrude Atherton, The Immortal Marriage (1927)
 * Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning (1974)
 * Robert Hamerling, Aspasia (1875)
 * W. Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia (1836)
 * Margery Lawrence, The Gate of Yesterday (1960)
 * Rex Warner, Pericles the Athenian (1963)

Alcibiades

 * Gertrude Atherton, The Jealous Gods (1928)
 * Charles H. Bromby, Alkibiades (1905)
 * Daniel Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele (2002)
 * Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods (1908)
 * Peter Green, Achilles His Armour (1955)
 * Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet Crown (1954)
 * M. Pardoe, Argle's Oracle (1959)
 * Steven Pressfield, Tides of War (2000)
 * Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis (1969)

Socrates

 * Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)
 * Cora Mason, Socrates (1953)
 * Fritz Mauthner, Mrs. Socrates (1926)
 * Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine (1956)
 * Geoffrey Trease, The Crown of Violet aka Web of Traitors (U.S.) (1952)

Miscellaneous 5th century

 * A. J. Church, Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens (1892)
 * I. O. Evans, Olympic Runner (1955)
 * Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters (1996)
 * Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series
 * Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989)
 * The Walled Orchard (1991)
 * John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929)
 * Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover (1948)
 * Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution (1859)
 * Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004)
 * Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974)
 * Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925)
 * George Moore, Aphrodite in Aulis (1931)
 * Nicholas Nicastro, The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta (2005)
 * Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus (1939)
 * Mary Renault
 * The Mask of Apollo (1966)
 * The Praise Singer (1978)
 * Caroline Snedeker, Theras and His Town (1925)
 * José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
 * Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player (1912)
 * Arthur S. Way, Sons of the Violet-Crowned (1929)
 * Christoph Martin Wieland,
 * The Story of Agathon (1766-7)
 * The Republic of Fools (1774)
 * Frank Yerby, Goat Song (1967)

Xenophon

 * Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand (2001)
 * Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes (2nd century)

Alexander the Great

 * Anna Apostolou
 * A Murder in Macedon (1997)
 * A Murder in Thebes (1998)
 * Konrad Bercovici, Alexander (1928)
 * Ben Bova, Orion and the Conqueror (1994)
 * Mary Butts, The Macedonian (1933)
 * Christian Cameron, God of War (2012)
 * A. J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great (1890)
 * Paul C. Doherty
 * The House of Death (2001)
 * The Godless Man (2002)
 * The Gates of Hell (2003)
 * Maurice Druon (Maurice Kessel), Alexander the God (1960)
 * David Gemmell
 * Lion of Macedon (1990)
 * Dark Prince (1993)
 * Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End (1999)
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great (1941)
 * Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (1946)
 * Valerio Massimo Manfredi
 * Alexander: Child of a Dream (2001)
 * Alexander: The Sands of Ammon (2001)
 * Alexander: The Ends of the Earth (2001)
 * Klaus Mann, Alexander: a Novel of Utopia 1929)
 * Edison Marshall, The Conqueror (1962)
 * Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women (1965)
 * Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great (1960)
 * Marshall Monroe Kirkman
 * Iskander (1903)
 * The Romance of Alexander and Roxana (1909)
 * The Romance of Alexander the King (1909)
 * Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes (2004)
 * Scott Oden, Memnon (2006)
 * Robert Payne, Alexander the God (1954)
 * Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War (2005)
 * Mary Renault, Alexander trilogy
 * Fire from Heaven (1969) — the early life of Alexander the Great
 * The Persian Boy (1972) — Alexander the Great after his conquest of Persia
 * Funeral Games (1981) — the successors of Alexander
 * Katherine Roberts, The Mausoleum Murder (2003)
 * Melissa Scott, A Choice of Destinies (1986)
 * Judith Tarr
 * Lord of the Two Lands (1993)
 * Queen of the Amazons (2004)
 * Jakob Wasserman, Alexander in Babylon (1949)
 * Ivan Yefremov, Thais of Athens (1972)

Miscellaneous 4th century

 * Gillian Bradshaw, The Sand-Reckoner (2000) about Archimedes
 * Bryher, Gate to the Sea (1958)
 * Margaret Doody, Aristotle and Stephanos series
 * Aristotle Detective (1978)
 * Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin (1980)
 * Aristotle and Poetic Justice (2000)
 * Aristotle and the Secrets of Life (2002)
 * Anello di bronzo ("Ring of Bronze") (2003)
 * Poison in Athens (2004)
 * Mysteries of Eleusis (2005)
 * John Gardner, The Wreckage of Agathon (1970)
 * Noel Gerson, The Golden Lyre (1963)
 * William Kotzwinkle, Night Book (1974)
 * Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Tyrant (2005)
 * Ursule Molinaro, The New Moon with the Old Moon in Her Arms (1990)
 * Mary Renault, Mask of Apollo (1966)
 * Katherine Roberts, The Olympic Conspiracy (2004)
 * Barnaby Ross, The Scrolls of Lysis (1962)
 * José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002)
 * L. Sprague de Camp
 * The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
 * An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)
 * F. Van Wyck Mason, Lysander (1957)
 * Peter Vansittart, A Choice of Murder (1992)

Hellenistic

 * Gillian Bradshaw, The Sand-Reckoner (2000)
 * Chariton of Aphrodisias, Chaereas and Callirhoe (1st century)
 * Christian Cameron
 * Tyrant (2008)
 * Storm of Arrows (2009)
 * Funeral Games (2010)
 * King of the Bosporus (2011)
 * Destroyer of Cities (2013)
 * Force of Kings (2014)
 * Alfred Duggan, Elephants and Castles (1963)
 * Georg Ebers
 * The Sisters (1880)
 * Arachne (1898)
 * I. O. Evans, Strange Devices (1950)
 * Vardis Fisher, The Island of the Innocent (1952)
 * William Golding, The Double Tongue (1995)
 * Joan Grant, Return to Elysium (1947)
 * H.D., Hedylus (1928)
 * Jack Lindsay, Come Home at Last (1934)
 * Naomi Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1930)
 * Eden Phillpotts, The Treasures of Typhon (1924)
 * Carolyn Snedeker, The Forgotten Daughter (1933)
 * L. Sprague de Camp
 * The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)
 * The Golden Wind (1969)
 * Duncan Sprott
 * The House of the Eagle (2004)
 * Daughter of the Crocodile (2006)
 * H. N. Turteltaub, "Hellenic Traders" series, set some time after the death of Alexander
 * Over the Wine Dark Sea (2001)
 * The Gryphon's Skull (2002)
 * The Sacred Land (2003)
 * Owls to Athens (2004)
 * Thornton Wilder, The Woman of Andros (1930)

1st century BCE

 * William Golding, The Double Tongue (1995)

2nd century CE

 * Achilles Tatius, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon (2nd century)
 * Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea (2nd century)
 * Longus, Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century)
 * Lucian, True History (2nd century AD), 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