There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms. Titles include:
Books
Bronze Age and mythistoricals
Atlantis Poul Anderson, The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
Crete
Daedalus Michael Ayrton The Testament of Daedalus (1962) The Maze Maker (1967) Erick Berry, Winged Girl of Knossos (1933) Ernst Schnabel, Story for Icarus (1958)
Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra Eleanor Farjeon, Ariadne and the Bull (1945) André Gide, Theseus (1946) Roger Lancelyn Green, Mystery at Mycenae (1957) Madeline Miller, Circe (2018) Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002) Mary Renault, "Thesead" The King Must Die (1958) The Bull from the Sea (1962) Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis, Theseus: The King Who Killed the Minotaur (1988) Fred Saberhagen, Ariadne's Web (2000) Ian Serraillier, The Way of Danger (1962) Althea Urn, Five Miles from Candia (1959)
Miscellaneous Minoan Moyra Caldecott, The Lily and the Bull (1979) Paul Capon, The Kingdom of the Bulls (1961) Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel (1940) Nikos Kazantzakis, At the Palaces of Knossos (1981) Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Birth of the Gods (1924) S.V. Peddle (Vince Peddle & Sandra Peddle), The Moon Maiden (2003) Richard Purtill The Golden Gryphon Feather (1979) The Stolen Goddess (1980) Thomas Burnett Swann The Forest of Forever (1971) Cry Silver Bells (1977) The Day of the Minotaur (1966) James Watson, The Bull Leapers (1970)
Hercules, Jason et al. Ivor Bannet, The Amazons (1948) Otar Chiladze, A Man Was Going Down the Road (1973) John Gregory Betancourt Hercules: The Gates of Hades (2001) Hercules: The Vengeance of Hera (1997) Hercules: The Wrath of Poseidon (1997) Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (1998) Ken Catran, Voyage with Jason (2000) Keith DeCandido Cheiron's Warriors (1999) The Ares Alliance (2000) Tobias Druitt, Corydon and the Island of Monsters (2005) Robert Graves, The Golden Fleece (U.K.) Hercules, My Shipmate (U.S.) (1945) Kerry Greenwood, Medea (1997) Edison Marshall, Earth Giant (1960) Fred Saberhagen God of the Golden Fleece (2001) The Arms of Hercules (2000) The Face of Apollo (1999) Ian Serraillier, The Clashing Rocks (1963) Miranda Seymour, Medea (1972) Henry Treece, Jason (1961) Christa Wolf, Medea: A Novel (1998) Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Jason and the Gorgon's Blood (2004)
Trojan War Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018) Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987) Nancy Bogen, Klytaimnestra, Who Stayed at Home (1980) Lindsay Clarke, The War at Troy (2004) Elizabeth Cook, Achilles (2003) Caroline B. Cooney, Goddess of Yesterday (2002) (a.k.a. On the Seas to Troy, UK, 2004) Donald Cotton, The Myth Makers, a Doctor Who serial (1965) Gordon Doherty The Crimson Throne (2021) The Shadow of Troy (2021) The Dark Earth (2022) Bernard Evslin, The Trojan War (1971) David Gemmell Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005) Troy: Shield of Thunder (2006) Troy: Fall of Kings (2007) Adèle Geras, Troy (2000) Noel B. Gerson, The Trojan (1962) Roger Lancelyn Green, The Luck of Troy (1961) Judith Hand, The Amazon and the Warrior (2004) Terence Hawkins, The Rage of Achilles (2009) Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships (2019) Tom Holland, The Poison in the Blood (2006) Jack Lindsay, Cressida's First Lover (1931) Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The Talisman of Troy (2004) Colleen McCullough, The Song of Troy (1998) Maude Meagher, The Green Scamander (1933) Mark Merlis, An Arrow's Flight (1998) Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (2011) Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937) Phillip Parotti The Greek Generals Talk (1986) The Trojan Generals Talk (1988) Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970) Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937) S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986) S. M. Stirling Against the Tide of Years (1999) On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916) Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967) Barry Unsworth, The Songs of the Kings (2002) Tyrone Walls, To Die Like an Amazon (2002)
Helen John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) Margaret George, Helen of Troy (2006) H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire (1890) Eva Hemmer Hansen, Scandal in Troy (1956) Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965) Richard Purtill, The Mirror of Helen (1983) Miranda Seymour, Goddess (1979) Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)
Cassandra Hilary Bailey, Cassandra, Princess of Troy (1993) Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987) Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra (1995) Ursule Molinaro, The Autobiography of Cassandra, Princess and Prophetess of Troy (1979) Georgia Sallaska, Priam's Daughter (1970) Christa Wolf, Cassandra (1983)
Odysseus John Arden, Cogs Tyrannic (1991) Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005) Lindsay Clarke, The Return from Troy (2005) H. C. Crew, The Lost King (1929) John Erskine, Penelope's Man: The Homing Instinct (1928) François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus (1699) Adèle Geras, Ithaka (2000) Robert Graves, Homer's Daughter (1955) Eyvind Johansson, Return to Ithaca (1952) Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island (1926) Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All (1986) Odysseus: The Journey through Hell (1987) Paul Shipton, The Pig Scrolls (2004) Ernst Schnabel, The Voyage Home (1958) Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001)
Miscellaneous Mycenaean John Barth, Chimera (1972) Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993) Paul Capon Warrior's Moon (1960) Lord of the Chariots (1962) Maurice Druon, The Memoirs of Zeus (1964) John Erskine, Venus: The Lonely Goddess (1949) Jackie French, Oracle (2010) Roger Lancelyn Green, The Land Beyond the North (1958) Kerry Greenwood, Electra (1996) Victoria Grossack & Alice Underwood, Iokaste (2004) Pierre Louys, The Twilight of The Nymphs (1928) Ursule Molinaro, Power Dreamers: The Jocasta Complex (1995) Phillip Parotti, Fires in the Sky (1990) John Cowper Powys, Atlantis (1954) Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons (2002) Mary Ray Standing Lions (1968) Shout against the Wind (1970) Song of Thunder (1978) The Golden Bees (1984) Georgia Sallaska Three Ships and Three Kings (1969) The Last Heracles (1974) Gladys Schmitt, Electra (1966) Ian Serraillier, The Gorgon's Head (1961) Ivan Yefremov, The Land of Foam (1958) George Shipway Warrior in Bronze (1977) King in Splendour (1979) Henry Treece The Golden One (1961) Electra (1963) Oedipus (1964)
Based on a television program Mel Odom, Young Hercules (1999)
Archaic Greece
Sappho Peter Green, The Laughter of Aphrodite (1965) Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap (2003) Martha Rofheart, Burning Sappho (1974) Thomas Burnett Swann, Wolfwinter (1972)
Aesop John Vornholt, The Fabulist (1993)
Miscellaneous Archaic Georg Ebers, An Egyptian Princess (1864) Ernst Eckstein, Aphrodite (1886) Nigel Frith, Olympiad (1988) Tom Holt, Olympiad (2000) David Pownall, The Sphinx and the Sybarites (1993) Mary Ray, The Voice of Apollo (1964) Mary Renault, The Praise Singer (1979) George R. Stewart, Years of the City (1955) Melas Kadmidis, The Second Odyssey (2026)
5th century BCE
Persian Wars John Buchan, The Moon Endureth (short story "The Lemnian") (1912) John Burke, The Lion of Sparta (1961) Christian Cameron, The Long War Killer of Men (2010) Marathon (2011) Poseidon's Spear (2012) The Great King (2014) Salamis (2015) The Rage of Ares (2016) William Stearns Davis, A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles (1907) Clare Winger Harris, Persephone of Eleusis (1923) Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pausanias, the Spartan (1873) Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan (2002) Jon Edward Martin, In Kithairon's Shadow (2003) Roderick Milton, Tell Them in Sparta (1962) Margarett Mirley The Leave-Takers (2004) Dream-Thoughts (2004) Trysts (2004) Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire (1998) Mary Renault, The Lion in the Gateway (1964) Caroline Snedeker The Perilous Seat (1923) The Spartan (1911) L. Sprague de Camp, The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate (1961) Gore Vidal, Creation (1982) Jill Paton Walsh, Farewell, Great King (1972) Gene Wolfe Soldier of the Mist (1986) Soldier of Arete (1989) Soldier of Sidon (2006)
Pericles and/or Aspasia Gertrude Atherton, The Immortal Marriage (1927) Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning (1974) L. Sprague de Camp, The Glory That Was (1952) Robert Hamerling, Aspasia (1875) W. Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia (1836) Margery Lawrence, The Gate of Yesterday (1960) Rex Warner, Pericles the Athenian (1963)
Alcibiades Gertrude Atherton, The Jealous Gods (1928) Charles H. Bromby, Alkibiades (1905) Daniel Chavarría, The Eye of Cybele (2002) Anna Bowman Dodd, On the Knees of the Gods (1908) Peter Green, Achilles His Armour (1955) Gertrude R. Levy, The Violet Crown (1954) M. Pardoe, Argle's Oracle (1959) Steven Pressfield, Tides of War (2000) Rosemary Sutcliff, The Flowers of Adonis (1969)
Socrates Paul Levinson, The Plot to Save Socrates (2006) Cora Mason, Socrates (1953) Fritz Mauthner, Mrs. Socrates (1926) Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine (1956) Geoffrey Trease, The Crown of Violet a.k.a. Web of Traitors (U.S.) (1952)
Miscellaneous 5th century A. J. Church, Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens (1892) I. O. Evans, Olympic Runner (1955) Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters (1996) Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989) The Walled Orchard (1991) John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929) Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover (1948) Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution (1859) Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004) Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974) Naomi Mitchison, Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925) George Moore, Aphrodite in Aulis (1931) Nicholas Nicastro, The Isle of Stone: A Novel of Ancient Sparta (2005) Jan Parandowski, The Olympic Discus (1939) Mary Renault The Mask of Apollo (1966) The Praise Singer (1978) Caroline Snedeker, Theras and His Town (1925) José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders (2002) Henry De Vere Stacpoole, The Street of the Flute-Player (1912) Arthur S. Way, Sons of the Violet-Crowned (1929) Christoph Martin Wieland, The Story of Agathon (1766-7) The Republic of Fools (1774) Frank Yerby, Goat Song (1967)
4th century BCE
Xenophon Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand (2001) Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes (2nd century)
Epaminondas Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Sparta (2011)
Philip II of Macedon Nicholas Guild, The Macedonian (2017)
Alexander the Great Anna Apostolou A Murder in Macedon (1997) A Murder in Thebes (1998) Konrad Bercovici, Alexander (1928) Ben Bova, Orion and the Conqueror (1994) Mary Butts, The Macedonian (1933) Christian Cameron, God of War (2012) A. J. Church, A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great (1890) Paul C. Doherty The House of Death (2001) The Godless Man (2002) The Gates of Hell (2003) Maurice Druon (Maurice Kessel), Alexander the God (1960) David Gemmell Lion of Macedon (1990) Dark Prince (1993) Tom Holt, Alexander at the World's End (1999) Nikos Kazantzakis, Alexander the Great (1941) Harold Lamb, Alexander of Macedon (1946) Valerio Massimo Manfredi Alexander: Child of a Dream (2001) Alexander: The Sands of Ammon (2001) Alexander: The Ends of the Earth (2001) Klaus Mann, Alexander: a Novel of Utopia 1929) Edison Marshall, The Conqueror (1962) Aubrey Menen, A Conspiracy of Women (1965) Naomi Mitchison, The Young Alexander the Great (1960) Marshall Monroe Kirkman Iskander (1903) The Romance of Alexander and Roxana (1909)