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
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
Warfare in the Classical World
Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy
Dividing the Spoils
Helen of Troy
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
The Western Way of War
Thermopylae
Rubicon
Caesar
Augustus
Alexander the Great
Trojan War
Rome and Italy
Herodotus