What to Read After The hemlock cup
Readers who loved The hemlock cup by Bettany Hughes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The hemlock cup 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 hemlock cup
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
The Parthenon enigma
Dividing the spoils
Egypt, Greece, and Rome
The cave and the light
The theological tractates
Lords of the sea
Great soul
The birth of classical Europe
All things shining
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
Courtesans & fishcakes
The war that killed Achilles
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
The death of Caesar
The Making of the Middle Sea
The fires of Vesuvius
Confronting the classics
The Parthenon
Helen of Troy
Ghost on the throne
Why Socrates died
The Spartans
Thermopylae