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Mythological & Archaic Greece
(Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Myths, Minoans, Mycenaeans, The Trojan War, Theseus of Athens )
 

 

before 500 B.C.

Character

Author

 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

Amy Myers

Bias, a priest Michael B. Edwards

 Diomedes, a doctor

Darrell Schweitzer  

 Puck, or Robin Goodfellow

Stephen Baxter

 King Rhampsinitus (Pharaoh Rameses III)

Herodotus

Kitane, priestess of Knossos Kris Swank
Telemachos & Achilleus, Greek merchants

Rob Reginald

Thersites, a deformed and scurrilous Greek Claire Griffen

Classical Greece- 
("The Golden Age" of Athens, Pericles & Aspasia, Alcibiades, Socrates & Plato, Sparta, The Olympics,)  

 

c. 500-338 B.C.

Character

Author

 Alcibiades, Athenian general  (c.450-404 B.C.) &
     Socrates, philosopher
(469-399 B.C.)

Daniel Chavarria

 Apemantus, a churlish philosopher

Peter T. Garratt  

  Autolycus, a rogue

 Amy Myers  

Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas" José Carlos Somoza

 Hermion, Spartan captain

Peter Carnahan

Herodotus, historian and explorer
    (c.484-425 B.C.)

Mary Reed & Eric Mayer  

Idas, a merchant Patrick Hatten
Iliona, High Priestess of Sparta Marilyn Todd

 Kleides the Sophist, philosopher & 

    investigator for Pericles, Archon of Athens

Marianne Wilski Strong  

 Lysanias (461 B.C.)

Roger Hudson

 Socrates, philosopher (469-399 B.C.)

Brèni James  

 Socrates, philosopher (469-399 B.C.)

Gillian Linscott 

The Hellenistic Age
(Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Aristotle)

 

338-146 B.C.

 Character

Author

Alexander the Great  (356-323 B.C.)

Theodore Mathieson

Alexander the Great & friends  (356-323 B.C.)

Paul C. Doherty

Archimedes, mathematician and inventor
    (c.287-212 B.C.)

Keith Taylor

     Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 B.C.), & Stephanos

          novels

          short stories

 Margaret Doody

 

 Cynthia, Witch of Syracuse

Dorothy J. Heydt  

 Luciana, sister to Adriana

Lawrence Schimel & 
Jeffrey Marks  

 Thaliard, a lord of Antioch

Andrew Lane  

The Roman Age
(Greece is a province of Rome, Julius Caesar, the Roman Emperors)

 

146 B.C. - A.D. 330

 Character

Author

Apollonius of Tyana, philosopher & miracle worker

Brian Stableford

Decius Mettelus, Roman administrator – SPQR

John Maddox Roberts  

 Epictetus, philosopher  

Keith Heller  

 Gordianus the Finder Roma Sub Rosa series

Steven Saylor  

Marcus Didius Falco Lindsey Davis

 Pliny the Younger (A.D. 61-112)

Darrell Schweitzer    

 Pliny the Younger (A.D. 61-112) &
    
Tacitus, historian (c. A.D. 56-117)
Albert A. Bell Jr.

The Byzantine Age
(The Roman Empire in the East, Constantine, Byzantium/Constantinople, Justinian, the Crusades)

 

A.D. 330-1453

 Character

Author 

Baudolino Umberto Eco
Claudia, spy for Emperor Constantine & Helena Paul C. Doherty 
Demetrios Askiates Tom Harper

  Father George

 Harry Turtledove

Sir Geoffrey Mappestone Simon Beaufort

     John the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian's Chamberlain

          novels

          short stories

Mary Reed & Eric Mayer  

     Theophilos (Feste) the Fool
          novels
          short stories
Alan Gordon

Beyond Ancient Greece
(A few works of interest )

 

after 1453 A.D.

 Character

Author 

Black Orhan Pamuk
Crispin Almond Ellis Peters
  The Fury Alexander Jablokov
Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie
Inspector Richard Ringwood Katharine Ferrer
Laetitia "Letty" Talbot Barbara Cleverly
Theocritus Westborough, classical scholar Clyde B. Clason


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