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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 5352123, member: 96898&quot;]+1. This thread contains a lot of good recommendations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I can recommend the <i>Roma Sub Rosa </i>series by Steven Saylor. You can think of these as Raymond-Chandler-style detective novels set in the late Roman Republic, written by a trained classicist with remarkable literary talent. They make for a gripping read and are at the same time well-researched and considerably more clever than your typical &quot;historical novel.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Mary Renault wrote some high quality fiction set in ancient Greece. <i>The Last of the Wine </i>is a very good start.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marguerite Yourcenar&#039;s <i>Memoirs of Hadrian </i>is by all rights a modern classic, albeit a somewhat forgotten one. In my eyes, this is a must-read book that goes way beyond mere entertainment fiction. About the same applies to Robert Graves <i>I, Claudius </i>and <i>Claudius the God, </i>Gore Vidal&#039;s <i>Julian, </i>as well as Walter Pater&#039;s <i>Marius the Epicurean</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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