Recommended Reading—Hellenistic Era

Read chapters from "core" texts before reviewing study questions.


Book Title
Selected Chapters (# chapters)

Core Reading Assignments

Haaren - Famous Men of Greece   Alexander the Great to The Fall of Greece (7)
Guerber - The Story of the Greeks   Birth of Alexander to Greece a Roman Province (25)
Macgregor - The Story of Greece   Alexander and Bucephalus to Demosthenes in the Temple (13)

Supplemental Recommendations

Tappan - The Story of the Greek People   Alexander the Great (1)
Harding - Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men   Alexander the Great (1)
Morris - Historical Tales: Roman   Archimedes at Syracuse (1)
Morris - Historical Tales: Greek   Alexander and Darius to The Literary Glory of Greece (7)
Church - Helmet and Spear   The Irresistible Phalanx to The Army of the Hundred Provinces (2)
Abbott - Alexander the Great    entire book
Abbott - Pyrrhus    entire book
Church - The Hammer    entire book
Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch   Demosthenes to Philopoemen (9)

Also Recommended

Gould - Tales of the Greeks: The Children's Plutarch   The Orator to The Last of the Greeks (7)
Tappan - Old World Hero Stories   Demosthenes to Alexander the Great (2)
Shaw - Stories of the Ancient Greeks   Alexander the Great to How Death Was Conquered (5)
Gibson - Stories of the Great Scientists   Two Thousand Years Ago (1)
Synge - A Book of Discovery   Ptolemy's Maps (1)
Horne - Back Matter   Diogenes to Archimedes (5)
Horne - Back Matter   Alexander the Great (1)
Church - A Young Macedonian    entire book