What to Read After The Birds and Other Plays
Readers who loved The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Birds and Other Plays is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Birds and Other Plays
Medea and other plays
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Sophocles II
Homeric Hymns
Comedies
A brief history of ancient Greece
The Homeric hymns
The Bacchae, and other plays
Persians and other plays
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (World's Classics)
The Burial at Thebes
The Idylls of Theocritus.
Seven against Thebes
The complete plays of Aristophanes
Frogs
Greek tragedies
The Athenian constitution
Hippolytus
The rise and fall of Athens
Pharsalia
Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores
Alcestis
Birds
Daphnis and Chloe