The Parthenon

7 best books like The Parthenon (Mary Beard): History of the Peloponnesian War, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, The Bacchae, Mahabharata, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life, Pax Romana, Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author	Thucydides
ISBN	0140440399

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

The Bacchae

Author	Euripides
ISBN	1854594117

Dionysus is my favourite ancient Greek god. Why? Because he is the coolest, simple as.

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!"


- The Young...

Mahabharata

Author	C. Rajagopalachari
ISBN	8172763689

Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: "What is not in it, is nowhere." But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights...

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

Author	Bettany Hughes
ISBN	1400041791

We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom...

Pax Romana

Author	Adrian Goldsworthy
ISBN	0297864289

Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates to...

Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

Author	Thomas R. Martin
ISBN	0300084935

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates...