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Mythological & Archaic Greece
(Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Myths, Minoans, Mycenaeans, The Trojan War, Theseus of
Athens )
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before 500
B.C.
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Character
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Author
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Aphrodite,
Goddess of Love
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Amy Myers
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Bias, a priest
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Michael
B. Edwards
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Diomedes,
a doctor
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Darrell Schweitzer
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Puck, or Robin Goodfellow
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Stephen Baxter
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King Rhampsinitus (Pharaoh Rameses III)
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Herodotus
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Telemachos & Achilleus, Greek
merchants |
Rob Reginald |
Thersites,
a deformed and scurrilous
Greek
|
Claire Griffen
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Classical Greece-
("The
Golden Age" of Athens, Pericles & Aspasia, Alcibiades, Socrates
& Plato, Sparta, The Olympics,)
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c. 500-338
B.C.
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Character
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Author
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Alcibiades, Athenian general
(c.450-404 B.C.) &
Socrates, philosopher
(469-399 B.C.)
|
Daniel
Chavarria
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Apemantus, a churlish philosopher
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Peter T. Garratt
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Autolycus, a rogue
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Amy Myers
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Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas"
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Jose
Carlos Somoza
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Hermion,
Spartan captain
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Peter
Carnahan
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Herodotus, historian and
explorer
(c.484-425 B.C.)
|
Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
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Idas, a merchant
|
Patrick
Hatten
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Iliona, High Priestess
of Sparta |
Marilyn Todd |
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Kleides the Sophist,
philosopher
&
investigator for Pericles,
Archon of Athens
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Marianne
Wilski Strong
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Lysanias, an innocent |
Roger Hudson |
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Socrates, philosopher (469-399 B.C.)
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Breni
James
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Socrates, philosopher (469-399 B.C.)
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Gillian
Linscott
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Socrates, philosopher
(469-399 B.C.)
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Paul Levinson
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The Hellenistic Age
(Philip
of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Aristotle)
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338-146 B.C.
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Character
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Author
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Alexander
the Great (356-323 B.C.)
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Theodore
Mathieson
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Alexander
the Great
& friends
(356-323 B.C.)
|
Paul
C. Doherty
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Archimedes, mathematician and
inventor
(c.287-212 B.C.)
|
Keith Taylor
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Aristotle, philosopher
(384-322 B.C.), & Stephanos
novels
short stories
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Margaret
Doody
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Cynthia, Witch of
Syracuse
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Dorothy J. Heydt
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Luciana, sister to Adriana
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Lawrence
Schimel &
Jeffrey Marks
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Thaliard, a lord of Antioch
|
Andrew Lane
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The Roman Age
(Greece
is a province of Rome, Julius Caesar, the Roman Emperors)
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146 B.C.
- A.D. 330
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Character
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Author
|
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Apollonius of
Tyana, philosopher & miracle worker
|
Brian Stableford
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Decius
Mettelus, Roman
administrator – SPQR
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John
Maddox Roberts
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Epictetus,
philosopher
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Keith Heller
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Gordianus the Finder – Roma Sub
Rosa series
|
Steven Saylor
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Marcus Didius Falco |
Lindsey Davis |
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Pliny the Younger (A.D. 61-112)
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Darrell
Schweitzer
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Pliny the Younger (A.D. 61-112)
&
Tacitus,
historian (c. A.D. 56-117)
|
Albert
A. Bell Jr.
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The Byzantine
Age
(The
Roman Empire in the East, Constantine, Byzantium/Constantinople, Justinian,
the Crusades)
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A.D. 330-1453
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Character
|
Author
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Baudolino |
Umberto Eco |
Claudia, spy for Emperor Constantine & Helena
|
Paul
C. Doherty
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Demetrios Askiates
|
Tom
Harper
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Father
George
|
Harry
Turtledove
|
Sir Geoffrey Mappestone |
Simon Beaufort |
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John
the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian's Chamberlain
novels
short stories
|
Mary Reed
& Eric Mayer
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Theophilos
(Feste)
the Fool
novels
short stories |
Alan
Gordon
|
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Beyond
Ancient Greece
(A few
works of interest )
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after 1453 A.D.
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Character
|
Author
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Black |
Orhan Pamuk |
Crispin Almond
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Ellis
Peters
|
The Fury |
Alexander Jablokov |
Hercule Poirot |
Agatha Christie |
Kamil Pasha |
Jenny White |
Inspector Richard
Ringwood |
Katharine Ferrer |
Sierra Waters |
Paul Levinson |
Stephanie Delacour |
Julia Kristeva |
Theocritus
Westborough, classical scholar
|
Clyde
B. Clason
|
Yashim
Togalu |
Jason Goodwin |