What to Read After The rise and fall of Athens
Readers who loved The rise and fall of Athens by Plutarch keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The rise and fall of Athens 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 rise and fall of Athens
The rise of the Roman Empire
Greek tragedies
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
The later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
From the Gracchi to Nero
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Fall of the Roman Republic
The landmark Thucydides
Iliad
The Agricola and the Germania
History of the Peloponnesian War
Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
The trial and death of Socrates
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
Selected works
The complete plays of Aristophanes
The Athenian constitution
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
The Conquest of Gaul
Iliad
Parables and Paradoxes
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
The Peloponnesian War
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged