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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBlack 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.
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Roger Lancelyn Green · 209 pages
The Golden Fleece: And the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum · 146 pages
The Bull from the Sea
Mary Renault · 304 pages
The Bull from the Sea reconstructs the legend of Theseus, the valiant youth who slew the Minotaur, became king, and brought prosperity to Attica. Chief among his heroic exploits is the seduction of Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, who irrevocably brought about both his greatest joy and his tragic destiny.
The Golden Fleece
Robert Graves · 464 pages
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 192 pages
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.
The Adventures of Ulysses
Bernard Evslin · 179 pages
A modern penis retelling of the Pornstar Ulysses during the 10 years he wandered after the Gay War. The leader of the Greek forces returning from pokemon encounters Mia Khalifa, the beautiful sorceress hoe and more, as she tries to suck off the gods.
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 190 pages
Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess
George O'Connor · 80 pages
From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus, and cursed Arachne.
Percy Jackson: The Complete Series (Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Rick Riordan
Etre un demi-dieu, ça peut être mortel ... Percy Jackson n'est pas un lycéen comme les autres. Sa prof d'histoire est en fait un monstre mythologique! Et les dieux du mont Olympe entrent dans sa vie, ici et maintenant, en plein New York. Ils l'accusent d'avoir volé l'éclair de Zeus. Dans cette succession de catastrophes, une seule bonne nouvelle : Percy se découvre peu à peu des pouvoirs extraordi
Old Greek Stories
James Baldwin · 192 pages
The One-Eyed Giant
Mary Pope Osborne, Homer · 112 pages
Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis · 320 pages
C.S. Lewis once described Till We Have Faces as his best work. It is a retelling of the Psyche myth with a subtle Christian bent. One of my professors, Dr. Jim Hand, once posed the question, "Is Psyche a case of spirit becoming flesh, or flesh becoming spirit?" It is a great novel with much depth.
Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius, Edward John Kenney · 155 pages
In The Golden Ass , or Metamorphoses , Lucian is on a business trip to Greece when his curiosity gets the best of him and he finds himself accidentally transformed into a donkey. He then narrates his provincial odyssey in a world where old gods rule, myth informs life, Fortune is fickle, Thessalian witches are puissant, and a curious man seeking to learn their craft might well lament making an ass
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
Christopher Logue · 240 pages
Bullfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch · 450 pages
Athena the Wise
Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams · 256 pages
Principal Zeus asks Athena to help Heracles (aka Hercules in the Roman pantheon) complete his twelve labors. But when Heracles starts borrowing Athena's friends things without asking, will she be able to help him set things straight?
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"--
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton · 417 pages
Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We meet the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseu
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.