13 must-read mythology books like Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes

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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

By: Bettany Hughes

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

An erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy--a chronicle combining historical inquiry & st…

If you liked the mythology plot in Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Children of Jocasta

By: Natalie Haynes

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's The Children of Jocasta book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
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2. The Twelve Caesars

By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more

Similar categories in Robert Graves's The Twelve Caesars book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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3. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

By: Bettany Hughes

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

An erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy--a chronicle combining historical inquiry & st… read more

Similar categories in Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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4. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

By: Natalie Haynes

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

This revelatory book explores modern society while journeying back to the Greeks and Romans -- "wil… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's The Ancient Guide to Modern Life book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • history
  • greek mythology
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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5. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Graves's I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
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6. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found

By: Mary Beard

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ancient history

7. The Furies

By: Natalie Haynes

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more

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8. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)

By: Simon Schama

3.25

Format: 40 pages,

'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of… read more

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9. X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries

By: Michael Scott

4.28

Format: 350 pages, ebook

Through eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution of mod… read more

Similar categories in Michael Scott's X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ancient history
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10. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
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11. House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2)

By: Claire North

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

House of Odysseus is the follow up to award-winning author Claire North's Ithaca "a powerful, fresh… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's House of Odysseus (The Songs of Penelope, #2) book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
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12. Daughters of Sparta

By: Claire Heywood

3.88

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships--but now … read more

Similar categories in Claire Heywood's Daughters of Sparta book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
"He helped her to rule without ever trying to rule her."

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

"Sometimes we must be led by duty, and sometimes by what is right....The trick is to know when these things are the same, and when they are not. [Tyndoreos]"

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

"None of this was Agatha's fault, Helen knew that in her honest heart. And yet she resented her. For doing what she could not, for being what she was not, for giving her daughter what she had not. Whe…"

-Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

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13. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

Similar categories in Eric H. Cline's After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ancient history
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14. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • history
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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15. Psyche and Eros

By: Luna McNamara

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this utterly transporting reimagining of Greek mythology, the god of desire is cursed to fall fo… read more

Similar categories in Luna McNamara's Psyche and Eros book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
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16. Hera

By: Jennifer Saint

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hera, immortal goddess and daughter of the ancient Titan Cronos, helped her brother Zeus to overthr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saint's Hera book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
"She has been alone for a very long time."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"All she knows is that he leaves a trail of broken women in his wake, and she is the most broken of them all."

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"But as he looms over her, blocking out the sky, it seems that he is everything in the world, that he is bigger than that sky. He is too immense and too strong. There is nothing that Hera, the warrior…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

"She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will continue without her. She can slip away from the tethers of wh…"

-Jennifer Saint, Hera

Cover of Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg

17. Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

By: Sarah Clegg

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again. Demonic… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Clegg's Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • history
  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • nonfiction
  • mythology
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18. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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19. Medea

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more

Similar categories in Rosie Hewlett's Medea book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medea

Cover of The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) by Claire North

20. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)

By: Claire North

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3) book and Bettany Hughes's Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

  • historical
  • greek mythology
  • mythology

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Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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4.00

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3.91

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Katharine Beutner

3.92

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