The most popular Greece books of 2026

Memory Rehearsal

Eleni Sikelianos

The Senses in Ancient Greek Athletics Exploring the Body, Society and Culture Through a Sensory Lens

Matthew P. Evans

Europe A New History

Roderick Beaton

Pausanias of Sparta

Daniel Ogden

On the Sponge Islands

Julia Martin

Becoming Greece The Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Age in the Words of Eminent Greeks

Tom Cox, William Dardis

The Materiality of Diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean Gifts, Bribes, Offerings

Eduardo Sánchez Moreno, Enrique García Riaza

Hubris Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens

David Stuttard

Themistocles The Rise and Fall of Athens's Naval Mastermind

Michael Scott

Retail Therapy Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome

Laurence Totelin

Northern Greece/2

Dana Facaros

Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

Mantha Zarmakoupi

Textile Production in the Ancient Central Peloponnese Seen Through the Use of Clay Spools

Alina Iancu

The American School of Spies The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece

Stephan Talty

Sailing Textiles from Prehistory to Early History

The Virtue of Sōphrosunē in Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

Kristian Sheeley

Athens and Sparta

Adrian Goldsworthy

Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel Ancient Heroes in the Modern World

Peter Meineck

Alexander God, King, Man

Edmund Richardson

Lourinha Iberian and Mediterranean Dishes to Share

Matt McConnell, Jo Gamvros

Rough Guides Mini Athens

Rough Guides

Rough Guides Mini Crete

Rough Guides

Hoplite Behind the Shield in Ancient Greece, 500-333 BC

Iain Soden

Roman Legionary vs Hellenistic Phalangite Italy and Greece 280–168 BC

Murray Dahm