Ancient Greece – Level 2

Note: We have not read all the books on this list. Most are either stocked by reliable catalogs or are by authors with who we are familiar.

Key text: * Famous Men of Greece (Greenleaf Press)

Alternative Option * The Story of the Greeks by Helene Guerber

Optional Further Reading

NON-FICTION

Alexander the Great by Nikos Kazantzakis

Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay

MYTHOLOGY

Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green

Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge

The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge

HISTORICAL FICTION

The Crown of Violet by Geoffrey Trease – story of an Athenian boy and his family, with a Greek drama theme. OOP.

The Spartan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Children of the Fox by Jill Paton Walsh

Theras & His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker – an Athenian boy tries to adjust to life in Sparta

The Secret Arrow by Kenneth Lillington – Sparta and Peracles

ANCIENT ROME (Level 2)

Key text: * Famous Men of Rome (Greenleaf Press)

Alternative Option * The Story of the Romans by Helene Guerber

Optional Further Reading

NON-FICTION

Augustus Caesar’s World by Genevieve Foster

Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge

Caesar’s Gallic Wars by Olivia Coolidge

City by David Macaulay

Science in Ancient Rome by Jacqueline L.Harris

MYTHOLOGY

The Orchard Book of Roman Myths

HISTORICAL FICTION

Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld

Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld

The Pirates of Pompeii by Caroline Lawrence – mystery set in 79AD (also other books in the same series including The Secrets of Vesuvius, The Assassins of Rome and The Thieves of Ostia,

A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker

The Time Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle by Julia Jarman