What to Read After The Spartans
Readers who loved The Spartans by Paul Cartledge keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Spartans 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 Spartans
The Peloponnesian War
Persian Fire
A War Like No Other
The Punic wars
On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
Lords of the sea
The Spartacus war
Soldiers and Ghosts
The war that killed Achilles
The Classical World
Helen of Troy
Warfare in the classical world
Dividing the spoils
Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs
The Western Way of War
Fall of the Roman Empire
Thermopylae
Rubicon
Caesar
Augustus
Alexander the Great
The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX
The Story of Civilization II