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If you loved Thucydidean Themes by Simon Hornblower, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Ancient & Classical, Ancient, and Literary Criticism.

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Civil War — Caesar

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C.-A.D. 235) — Jonathan P. Roth

The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C.-A.D. 235)

Jonathan P. Roth

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Heroines of Olympus The Women of Greek Mythology — Ellie Mackin Roberts

Heroines of Olympus The Women of Greek Mythology

Ellie Mackin Roberts

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

What Is a Jewish Classicist? Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics — Simon Goldhill

What Is a Jewish Classicist? Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Incerti auctoris Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem — Ovid

Incerti auctoris Epistula Sapphus ad Phaonem

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Mythos The Greek Myths Retold — Stephen Fry

Mythos The Greek Myths Retold

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great — Pseudo-Callisthenes

The Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great

Pseudo-Callisthenes

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Ancient Greek Lists Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres — Athena Kirk

Ancient Greek Lists Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

On Benefits — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World — Karin Schlapbach

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

Karin Schlapbach

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Four Texts on Socrates Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes’ Clouds — Plato

Four Texts on Socrates Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes’ Clouds

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts Sailing in Troubled Waters — Rosario Rovira Guardiola

The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts Sailing in Troubled Waters

Rosario Rovira Guardiola

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Julius Caesar in Western Culture — Maria Wyke

Julius Caesar in Western Culture

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy — Stuart Lawrence

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy

Stuart Lawrence

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Hesiod’s Cosmos — Jenny Strauss Clay

Hesiod’s Cosmos

Jenny Strauss Clay

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Homer: Iliad Book VI — Homer

Homer: Iliad Book VI

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Education of Cyrus — Xenophon

The Education of Cyrus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal Latin text, notes, maps, illustrations and vocabulary — Bret Mulligan

Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal Latin text, notes, maps, illustrations and vocabulary

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Correspondence Of M. Tullius Cicero V2 Arranged According To Its Chronological Order, With A Revision Of The Text, A Commentary, And Introductory Essays (1906) — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Correspondence Of M. Tullius Cicero V2 Arranged According To Its Chronological Order, With A Revision Of The Text, A Commentary, And Introductory Essays (1906)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

Commentariolum Petitionis — Quintus Tullius Cicero

Commentariolum Petitionis

Quintus Tullius Cicero

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy — Christer Bruun

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220 — John M. Dillon

The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

An Outline Of The History Of The Literature Of The Old Testament With Chronological Tables For The History Of The Israelites (1898) — Emil Kautzsch

An Outline Of The History Of The Literature Of The Old Testament With Chronological Tables For The History Of The Israelites (1898)

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Ancient • Literary Criticism

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Thucydidean Themes by Simon Hornblower. Connected by Ancient & Classical, Ancient, Literary Criticism. Authors featured include Caesar, Jonathan P. Roth, Ellie Mackin Roberts, Simon Goldhill, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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