 | The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel by Margaret George
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.25 I can't recommend this book highly enough. It sucked me in completely, despite knowing how it would end, and I've reread it twice.
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 | The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $0.45 A heroic tale that will have you cheering, featuring Auriane, a woman of the Germanic tribes who becomes a slave and a gladiator in Rome. Also, if you read this book with The Memoirs of Cleopatra fresh in your mind, there's a tiny detail that becomes ten times as poignant.
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 | Lady of the Light by Donna Gillespie
Buy new: $4.81 / Used from: $3.31 Sequel to The Light Bearer, picking up Auriane's story in her middle years.
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 | Rome - The Complete First Two Seasons
Buy used from: $65.00 This only ran for two seasons, more's the pity. It's not 100% accurate, but it had me hooked.
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 | Black Ships by Jo Graham
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $1.71 The story of the Aeneid, as told by the Sibyl, whom Jo Graham fleshes out into a fascinating character.
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 | Helen of Troy by Margaret George
Buy used from: $0.06 The author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra tries her hand at the Trojan War.
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 | Magdalen Rising: The Beginning (The Maeve Chronicles) by Elizabeth Cunningham
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $5.38 Elizabeth Cunningham recasts the Magdalene as a Celtic priestess. This novel tells the story of her coming of age and her early friendship with Jesus.
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 | The Passion of Mary Magdalen: A Novel (The Maeve Chronicles) by Elizabeth Cunningham
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.64 The continued story of Cunningham's Celtic Magdalene. She becomes a Roman slave and later a holy prostitute, and finds her soul mate Jesus again. Beautiful, tragic, and filled with mythic resonance.
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 | Daughter of Troy: A Magnificent Saga of Courage, Betrayal, Devotion, and Destiny by Sarah B. Franklin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 More Trojan War, this time from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' "prize of war."
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 | Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.79 Not as much character development here as I like to see, but it had me on the edge of my seat.
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 | Inventing Memory by Anne Harris
Buy used from: $2.19 This isn't straight historical fiction, as it features a modern-day plot intertwined with its ancient Sumer plot, and contains science fiction elements. I very much liked it, though; it deals with a Sumerian slave-woman and a modern woman and their relationships with the goddess Belili.
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 | The Red Tent (Bestselling Backlist) by Anita Diamant
Buy used from: $2.54 Fleshes out Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah in the Old Testament.
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