What to Read After Oresteia
Readers who loved Oresteia by Aeschylus keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Oresteia 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 Oresteia
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sophocles II
The Theban plays
The Odyssey of Homer (P.S.)
Theogony
Medea and other plays
Medea
Bacchae
Lysistrata
Prometheus Bound
The Bacchae, and other plays
Metamorphoses
Iliad
Iliad
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
The Three Theban Plays
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Clouds
Electra
Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh