Okay, so I'm looking for a good book about anything Greek, preferably Spartan...I would like it to be historical fiction but also include the following...romance, Spartan life qualities, war, and it needs to be understandable. Some books out there are completely about war and terms, or way too many greek characters and hard language and are difficult to understand. If I could only find one that has all of it. I loved the movie '300' and I wish it was in real novel form- but that type of book would be great. It included love scenes, father-son and mother-son scenes, and battle, the strength of the Spartans. It had a plot to it and wasn't totally strategy and battle oriented. Anyone know of anything?
2007-07-02 17:38:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Homer's Oddysey is pretty good, fictional but a great read. It is a very old book and ironically, it was originally told by travelling bards in taverns from memory in form of a muse. That is before electricity or juke boxes before bands there were story tellers. You might also like Dante's Inferno. Same deal great works- not easy reads though/
2007-07-02 17:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you read Corelli's Mandolin? OK, so it's 20th century Greek historical fiction. Tells you about the history of Greece after throwing off the shackles of the Ottoman Turks, focusing mainly on events of WWII and thereafter.The movie had a happier ending.
2007-07-03 00:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure how you feel about reading Greek plays rather than novels, but there are 3 plays that I loved reading and re-reading.
Oedipus (1st in the series) and Antigone (second in the series) -there is a third play in this series, but I can't remember what it is, nor have I read it. There are many modern references to Oedipus and his tragedy, so I'd like to say that it is a must read.
Medea (Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned).
Enjoy!
2007-07-03 10:10:26 · answer #3 · answered by jenntaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago I enjoyed reading "The King Must Die" and "The Bull from the Sea" by Mary Renault. They are both novelizations of stories of Greek heroes and their conflicts with the gods. They have elements of love, strategy and heroism.
2007-07-03 01:06:29 · answer #4 · answered by one_eyed_teacher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Iliad and the Odyssey are greek epics by Homer, and aparently they're pretty good (I havn't gotten around to reading them). Other than those two I have no clue where to start.
2007-07-03 00:45:37 · answer #5 · answered by Thendens 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the odyssey sry bout spelling.
2007-07-03 01:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋