My brother is going on a trip to Greece. He loves ancient history and mythology. I was thinking of giving him a book as a present for his trip.
He's going to Crete and Athens.
It doesn't have to be only ancient Greece – just any suggestions for a good book set in Greece.
by Usual_Tumbleweed5956
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Song of Achilles or Circe! Both set in mythical Ancient Greece and by Madeline Miller.
*Histories* by Herodotus.
*Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae* by Steven Pressfield (fiction).
*The Battle of Marathon* by Peter Krentz.
*Anabasis* by Xenophon.
*Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age* by Robin Waterfield.
*History of the Peloponnesian War* by Thucydides.
*Life of Alexander* by Plutarch.
*Crete: The Battle and the Resistance* by Antony Beevor.
*The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation* by Giórgos Psychountákis.
*Vasili: The Lion of Crete* by Murray Elliott.
*From Ingleburn to Aitape: The Trials and Tribulations of a Four Figure Man* by Bob “Hooker” Holt, 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 16th Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd A.I.F.
The King Must Die by Mary Renault. Tells the story of Theseus, partly set in Crete.
The movie 300 is based on the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller
The graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller is based on the novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The novel Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is based on The Histories by Herodotus.
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
Do NOT get him “Song of Achilles”, since I’m sure someone will suggest that
Obyssey or Illiad. hshs