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• Circe

  Miller, Madeline

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  If you haven't read Miller's award-winning novel featuring the witch of Homer’s Odyssey, take this as your sign—drop everything and check it out now.

• Gods Behaving Badly

  Phillips, Marie

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  The modern world is no Mount Olympus for twelve gods forced to live in a tiny flat and scrape out livings as dogwalkers, fake psychics and sex workers.

• Bull

  Elliott, David, 1947-

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  This novel-in-verse uses a rap-like flow to tell the story of the Minotaur through seven distinct voices, with heavy doses of bawdiness, rage and pathos.

• Julius Caesar

  Bowen, Carl

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  Feeling intimidated by Shakespeare's version of Julius Caesar? Try this graphic novel adaptation of the famous play about the dictator's brutal murder.

• Mythos

  the Greek Myths Reimagined

  Fry, Stephen, 1957-

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  British comedian Fry puts his own wry spin on some of the most well-known Greek myths. Also available in an audio version narrated by the author.

• Lore Olympus. Volume 1

  Smythe, Rachel (Comics artist)

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  This candy-colored adaptation of the Persephone myth casts the gods as modern day celebrities dealing with their toxic family dynamics in the limelight.

• Death on Delos

  Corby, Gary,

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  Dive into a murder mystery as Nico, a private detective employed by the leader of Athens, and his wife Diotima track a killer on the holy island of Delos.

• A Year of Ravens

  a Novel of Boudica's Rebellion

  Quinn, Kate,

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  Seven bestselling authors come together to craft the story of Boudica, the Briton queen who led a rebellion against Rome, told from multiple viewpoints.

• Imperium

  Harris, Robert, 1957-

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  From the author of Conclave (and with just as much intrigue) this trilogy follows the rise and fall of both Caesar and his adversary Marcus Cicero.

• House of Names

  Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

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  Looking for something bloody? Here murder begets murder begets murder as a woman plots revenge on her husband for his part in the death of their daughter.

• A Thousand Ships

  Haynes, Natalie

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  The poets sing of the men and their deeds, but Penelope, Helen, Cassandra and more have Some Thoughts about the roles fobbed on them in these epics.

• Glorious Exploits

  Lennon, Ferdia,

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  After the Greeks botch an invasion of their homeland two drunken Sicilians draft the prisoners of war into staging a risky underground theatre production.

• I, Claudius

  From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Defied A.D. 54

  Graves, Robert, 1895-1985,

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  Graves's humorous and sympathetic “autobiography” of Claudius, born with a limp and stammer, led scholars to rethink the legacy of the maligned emperor.

• Galatea

  a Short Story

  Miller, Madeline

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  Bonus Madeline Miller entry! You'll just need one sitting to devour this tale of a statue brought to life and her overly controlling sculptor/husband.