📚 Ancient Greece

The city-states that invented democracy, philosophy and history-writing, and the wars that ended them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ancient greece in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Story of Civilization II	Will Durant	1935	45
	The antiquities of Athens	Stuart, James	1762	24
	The presocratic philosophers	G. S. Kirk	1957	17
	Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina	Hierocles of Alexandria	1583	9
	Classical Greece	Maurice Bowra	1965	9
	Central Greece and the politics of power in the fourth century B.C	John Buckler	2008	8
	Quaestiones	Alexander of Aphrodisias	1536	6
	Correspondence	Photius I Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople	1651	6
	Elektra	Jennifer Saint	2022	6
	Bulletin de correspondance hellénique	École française d'Athènes	1883	5
	Greece	Henri Stierlin	1997	5
	The ancient Mediterranean	Michael Grant	1969	4
	Democracy and Participation in Athens	R. K. Sinclair	1988	4
	Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy	S. Marc Cohen	1995	4
	Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World	Richard J. A. Talbert	2000	4
	The Edinburgh companion to ancient Greece and Rome	Edward Bispham	2006	4
	The boys' and girls' Herodotus	Ἡρόδοτος	1884	3
	The gods of the Greeks	Karl Kerényi	1958	3
	The Horizon book of ancient Greece	William Harlan Hale	1965	3
	Anonymi Byzantini Vita Alexandri regis Macedonum	Pseudo-Callisthenes	1974	3
	On the Pythagorean way of life	Iamblichus	1991	3
	The world of the ancient Greeks	John McK Camp	2002	3
	Geminos's Introduction to the phenomena	Geminus of Rhodes	2006	3
	Bishop Thirlwall's history of Greece	Connop Thirlwall	2007	3
	A companion to Greek studies	Leonard Whibley	1905	2
	Saint Basil on the value of Greek literature	Basil of Caesarea	1975	2
	The Acropolis	Manolis Andronikos	1978	2
	These were the Greeks	H. D. Amos	1979	2
	New light on ancient Carthage	John Griffiths Pedley	1980	2
	The Founding Of Christendom	Warren H. Carroll	1985	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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