What to Read After Thermopylae
Readers who loved Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Thermopylae 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 Thermopylae
Trojan War
The Peloponnesian War
Lords of the sea
The ghosts of Cannae
The Punic wars
The war that killed Achilles
Sailing the Wine-dark Sea
Hadrian
Last of the Amazons
Marathon
Chronicle of the Roman Republic
Courtesans & Fishcakes
Caesar
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
Scipio Africanus
The Greco-Persian wars
Blackbeard
The Spartans
Spartan Women
Islam
History of Rome
Alexander the Great
Ghost on the Throne
The Spartacus war