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Books like Plutarch on Sparta

What to read after Plutarch on Sparta by Plutarch: 24 titles sharing themes of Cultural, Greece, Ancient, and Anthropology, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Plutarch on Sparta

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Plutarch on Sparta — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Greeks

Sally Hewitt

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece

Mireille M. Lee

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Greek and Roman Slavery

Thomas E. J. Wiedemann

Themes: Cultural • Ancient • Anthropology

Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context

John J. Winkler

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

The Histories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Herodotus

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Out of One, Many Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Jennifer T. Roberts

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation

Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Pope, Homer, and Manliness Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning

Carolyn D. Williams

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

Hippocrates’ Woman Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

Helen King

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#10

The Secret of the Great Pyramid How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery

Bob Brier

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#11

A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire Breaking New Ground

Uzi Baram

Themes: Cultural • Ancient • Anthropology

#12

From Prehistoric Villages to Cities Settlement Aggregation and Community

Jennifer Birch

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#13

In the Footsteps of the Gods Travelers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal

David Constantine

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#14

Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

Jean Bottéro

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#15

City of Sokrates An Introduction to Classical Athens

John Willoby Roberts

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#16

The Iroquois and the Athenians A Political Ontology

Brian Seitz

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#17

The First Signs Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols

Genevieve von Petzinger

Themes: Cultural • Ancient • Anthropology

#18

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust

Donald Lateiner

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#19

The Realness of Things Past Ancient Greece and Ontological History

Greg Anderson

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#20

Introducing the Ancient Greeks From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#21

Ancient Greek Laws A Sourcebook

Ilias Arnaoutoglou

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#22

A Handbook of Mythology The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (1886)

E. M. Berens

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Anthropology

#23

Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2

Plutarch

Themes: Ancient • Anthropology • Social Science

#24

After Jesus Before Christianity A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

Erin Vearncombe

Themes: Greece • Ancient • Social Science

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Cultural, Greece, Ancient — the same threads that run through Plutarch on Sparta by Plutarch. Among the authors featured: Sally Hewitt, Mireille M. Lee, Thomas E. J. Wiedemann, John J. Winkler, and others.