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
A War Like No Other
The ghosts of Cannae
Lords of the sea
The Punic wars
Sailing the wine-dark sea
The war that killed Achilles
The Greco-Persian wars
Blackbeard
Chronicle of the Roman Republic
Hadrian
Courtesans & fishcakes
Caesar
Scipio Africanus
Last of the Amazons
The Spartans
Spartan women
History of Rome
Islam
Alexander the Great
Ghost on the throne
The Spartacus war
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)