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The Song of Troy

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Ἰλιάς

Ὅμηρος · 432 pages

Greek MythologyTragicSoldiers and WarfareMythology Retelling
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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 368 pages

This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast from his home for disappointing his father he manages to be the only mortal who can keep up with the half-God Archilles. Even though many will know the facts behind the story the telling is fresh and engaging.

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicSoldiers and Warfare
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Lord of the Silver Bow

David Gemmell · 496 pages

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologySoldiers and WarfareHistorical Fiction
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Ariadne

Jennifer Saint · 308 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicMultiple POV
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Troy

Adele Geras · 363 pages

Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, this novel portrays the late weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir up trouble.

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicMultiple POV
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The War at Troy

Lindsay Clarke · 432 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingSoldiers and WarfareViolent
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Clytemnestra

Costanza Casati · 435 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicHistorical Fiction
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House of Names

Colm Toibin

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicMultiple POV
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The Firebrand

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 603 pages

Born of noble blood, Kassandra is gifted with the ability to see into the futureand her visions tell of a battle that will bring the wrath of the gods upon all of Greece. She has foreseen the fall of Troy, but no one believes Kassandras prophecies, or heeds her warnings about the beautiful woman known as Helen...

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicHistorical Fiction
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King of Ithaca

Glyn Iliffe · 382 pages

Greece is a country in turmoil, divided by feuding kingdoms desiring wealth, power and revenge. When Eperitus, a young exiled soldier, comes to the aid of a group of warriors in battle, little does he know that it will be the start of an incredible adventure. For he is about to join the charismatic Odysseus, Prince of Ithaca, on a vital quest to save his homeland. Odysseus travels to Sparta to joi

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingSoldiers and WarfareHistorical Fiction
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City on Fire

Don Winslow · 384 pages

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologyTragicMultiple POV
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Metamorphoses

Ovid · 394 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicViolent
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Hades' Daughter

Sara Douglass · 672 pages

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologyMultiple POVViolent
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Aias

Sophocles · 100 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicSoldiers and Warfare
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The House of Hades

Rick Riordan · 608 pages

Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reinca

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingSoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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The King Must Die

Mary Renault · 373 pages

Historical fiction. Theseus, a prince of ancient Athens, is taken as a slave to the island of Crete, where he's condemned to certain death as a bull dancer. But he abducts the Princess Ariadne & makes a daring escape.

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologySoldiers and WarfareHistorical Fiction
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Black Ships Before Troy

Rosemary Sutcliff · 128 pages

Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologySoldiers and WarfareViolent
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The Oath

Valerio Massimo Manfredi · 372 pages

"The first book in an epic new series following the life and adventures of Odysseus, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's masterful new novel renders the extraordinary world of ancient Greece in his own unique way"--

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingSoldiers and WarfareHistorical Fiction
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Médée

Seneca, Seneque

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragicViolent
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Mythology RetellingGreek MythologySoldiers and WarfareViolent
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Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

Alice Oswald · 84 pages

"[An] original new poem which is also a translation of Homer's Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist"--Jacket.

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingTragic
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Medea

Christa Wolf · 186 pages

Greek MythologyMythology RetellingMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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A Song for Ella Grey

David Almond · 272 pages

Claire and Ella and their friends are bound by ties so strong they seem unbreakable. Then the strange and handsome Orpheus strolls onto the beach, and he sings them all into an astonishing new understanding of themselves. Ella is caught the hardest, fastest, deepest and Claire is left with the pain of looking on.

Mythology RetellingGreek MythologyTragic

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