The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
9 best books like The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War (Caroline Alexander): Alexander the Great, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire, Alexander the Great, Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, The Fall of Arthur, Caricature, Shades in Shadow
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0141020768 |
From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense...
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,...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
| Author | Mary Norris |
| ISBN | 1324001275 |
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
| Author | James Romm |
| ISBN | 0307271641 |
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity.
The story of Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic...
| Author | Philip Freeman |
| ISBN | 1416592806 |
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general...
| 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...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007489943 |
The Fall of Arthur recounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood, is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by Guinevere’s infidelity with the now-exiled Lancelot, Arthur must rouse his knights...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560974583 |
The dramatic short stories included in Caricature have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. Anchored by the title story, considered the first apotheosis of Clowes' seminal Eightball underground comic book series, Caricature also includes eight other stories,...
Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.
From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales....
