Saturday, March 29, 2008

Books about Ancient Greece

Also from an e-mail (thanks, Zelda)

Where Was Atlantis?" Brian Innes (The legend of Atlantis may have been based on the destruction of the island of Thera)
"The Mystery of Atlantis" Holly Wallace
"The Hero and the Minotaur: The Fantastic Adventures of Theseus" Robert Byrd
"How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek?" Fiona MacDonald
"You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece" Fiona MacDonald
"D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths" Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
"The Librarian Who Measured the Earth" Kathryn Lasky ( re: Eratosthenes)
"I Wonder Why the Greeks Built Temples and Other Questions..." Fiona MacDonald
"Black Ships Before Troy" and "The Wanderings of Odysseus" by Rosemary Sutcliff (highly recommend)
"Archimedes Takes a Bath" Joan M. Lexau
"Inside Ancient Athens" Fiona MacDonald
"Greek Gods and Goddesses" Geraldine McCaughrean (we really like this)
"The Gods and Goddesses of Mount Olympus" Aliki
"The World in the Time of Alexander the Great" Fiona MacDonald
"Ten Kings: And the Worlds They Rule" Milton Metzer (includes chapter on Alexander)
"People Who Made History: Ancient Greece" Nicola Morgan

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