Rhetoric: Ancient Times: 5000 B.C. - 400 A.D.
A Concise History of Spain (Cambridge Concise Histories) by William D. Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips (Nonfiction/Survey history--Paleolithic Era-Present)
Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe (Nonfiction/Britain/Ireland/Archaeology/DNA/History survey--10,000 B.C.-1066 A.D.)
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos (Nonfiction/Survey--7000 B.C.-21st century)
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak (Nonfiction/Brief profiles of forty lesser-known peoples/Includes maps and photos--3000 B.C.-550 A.D.)
Cuneiform by Irving Finkel (Sumerian Mesopotamia--c. 3200 B.C.)
Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia--2700-600 B.C.)
String, Straight-Edge, and Shadow by Julia E. Diggins (Nonfiction/History of Geometry--2600 B.C.-approx, 31 B.C.)
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek (Nonfiction/History--c. 1800-539 B.C.)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox (Nonfiction/Ancient Crete/Earliest recorded language/Linear B--1450 B.C.)
The Iliad by Homer (Mycenaean Greece/Troy--1194-1184 B.C.)
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (Novel/Iliad retelling/Viewpoint of Briseis--1194-1184 B.C.)
Troy by Adele Geras (Novel/Final weeks of Trojan War/Viewpoint of women of Troy--1184)
The Aeneid by Virgil (Troy/Rome--1184 B.C. on)
Livinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (Ancient Rome/Retelling of the last six books of The AeneidViewpoint of Livinia, second wife of Aeneas)
The Odyssey by Homer (Ancient Greece--1184-1164 B.C.)
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher (Persia)
Plutarch Lives by Plutarch (Nonfiction/Biographical Sketches/Famous Greeks and Romans/Theseus to Mark Antony--c. 820 B.C.-30 B.C.)
Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche by C. S. Lewis (Novel/Based on Roman myths that began to be recorded--8th-century B.C.)
The History of Rome by Livy (Nonfiction/most contemporary history--753-9 B.C.)
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus, ed. by Robert B. Strassler (Nonfiction/Most contemporary account/Rise of Persia through Greco-Persian War--550-479 B.C.)
Aeschylus I: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Lumenides, Proteus) by Aeschylus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Aeschylus wrote between 499-456 B.C.)
Aeschylus II: he Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Aeschylus wrote between 499-456 B.C.)
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (Novel/Battle of Thermopylae/Greco-Persian Wars--480 B.C.)
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Sophocles wrote between 442-409 B.C.)
Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers (Plays/Greek tragedies/I like the translations in this University of Chicago Press edition--Sophocles wrote between 442-409 B.C.)
(The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides ed. by Robert B. Strassler (Nonfiction/Peloponnesian War/Most contemporary account--431-411 B.C.)
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (Four dialogues--403 B.C.)
Hjortspring: A Pre-Roman Iron Age Warship in Context (Ships & Boats of the North) by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen (Nonfiction/Iron Age boatbuilding/Scandinavia--4th century B.C.)
Twelve Caesars by Seutonius (Earliest biographies/Julius Caesar to Domitian--60 B.C.-96 A.D.)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Play/Ancient Rome--44 B.C.)
Cleopatra's Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter (Novel/Cleopatra's daughter, Selene/Rome/Egypt--30 B.C.)
The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City by Joseph J. Walsh [Witness to Ancient History series] (Nonfiction--64 A.D.)
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain--119 A.D.)
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain--approx. 286-296 A.D.)