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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Historie (Manga)|Historie]]''
* So far, alluded to in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' though Herakles/Greece's as yet unseen mother, Mama Greece. It's also implied that she eventually became the Byzantine Empire...only for her to die in Turkey's hands.
 
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Three Hundred (Comic Book)300|Three Hundred]]''
* ''[[Asterix]] at the Olympic Games''
* ''[[Cartoon History of the Universe]]'': Volumes 5-7, at any rate.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[300 (Film)|Three Hundred]]''
* ''[[Clash of the Titans (Film)|Clash of the Titans]]'' and ''[[Jason and The Argonauts (Film)|Jason and Thethe Argonauts]]'' -- [[Harryhausen Movie|Harryhausen Movies]].
* ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''
* ''[[Troy (Film)|Troy]]''
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[David Gemmell]]'s ''Lion of Macedon'' is a retelling of Alexander the Great (or, rather, his dad).
* [[The Trojan Cycle (Literature)|The Trojan Cycle]], including the [[Homer (Creator)|Homeric]] epics
** ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]''
** ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]''
* The ''[[Batrachomyomachia (Literature)|Batrachomyomachia]]''
* ''[[The Aeneid (Literature)|The Aeneid]]''
* ''[[The Metamorphoses (Literature)|The Metamorphoses]]''
* [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] 's ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'' both feature Ephebe, an [[Affectionate Parody]] of Athens and her philosophers, while ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Eric|Eric]]'' (as well as the videogame ''[[Discworld Noir (Video Game)|Discworld Noir]]'') touches on the [[Trojan War]].
* [[Gene Wolfe]]'s ''[[Soldier of the Mist]]'' and ''Soldier of Arete'' tell the story of a mercenary in Xerces' army who does something to offend the gods, and is cursed with forgetting everything that happens more than a day ago, but who can see the gods. [[Gene Wolfe|Wolfe]] "translates" place names (for example, [[The Spartan Way|Sparta]] is "Rope", and they fought the "Great King" at "Hot Springs"), lending a sense of immediacy, and distancing the book from the familiarity of the trope.
* ''The Firebrand'' by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]].
* Mary Renault's mature period novels.
* ''[[Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon]]'': Decidedly [[Nonfiction]].
* ''[[Thais of Athens (Literature)|Thais of Athens]]'' is set during the classical period and the onset of Hellenism.
* ''[[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]]'' mentions Ancient Greece as the destination of a tourist gate, but only one brief scene features it and only two downtimers came through that gate.
* ''[[Over the Wine Dark Sea]]'': Hellenistic period.
 
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (TV)|Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess (TV)|Xena: Warrior Princess]]'': Though the series is ''also'' happening at the time of [[Ancient Rome]]. The writers never tried to respect chronology.
 
 
== [[Theater]] ==
* [[Aeschylus (Creator)|Aeschylus]]
** ''[[The Oresteia (Theatre)|The Oresteia]]'': ''[[Agamemnon (Theatre)|Agamemnon]]'', ''[[The Libation Bearers (Theatre)|The Libation Bearers]]'' and ''[[Eumenides (Theatre)|Eumenides]]''.
* [[Aristophanes (Creator)|Aristophanes]]
** ''[[The Clouds (Theatre)|The Clouds]]''
** ''[[Lysistrata (Theatre)|Lysistrata]]''
* [[Euripides (Creator)|Euripides]]
** ''[[Medea (Theatre)|Medea]]''
** ''[[Alcestis (Theatre)|Alcestis]]''
** ''[[Bacchae (Theatre)|Bacchae]]''
** ''[[Hippolytus (Theatre)|Hippolytus]]''
* [[Sophocles (Creator)|Sophocles]]
** ''[[Oedipus the King (Theatre)|Oedipus the King]]''
** ''[[Oedipus At Colonus (Theatre)|Oedipus Atat Colonus]]''
** ''[[Antigone (Theatre)|Antigone]]''
** ''[[Ajax (Theatre)|Ajax]]''
** ''[[The Women of Trachis (Theatre)|The Women of Trachis]]''
** ''[[Electra (Theatre)|Electra]]''
** ''[[Philoctetes (Theatre)|Philoctetes]]''
* [[ShakespeareWilliam (Creator)Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]
** ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre)|A Midsummer Nights Dream]]'': Albeit in a fantasy version of the setting.
** ''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Theatre)|Pericles Prince of Tyre]]''
** ''[[Timon of Athens (Theatre)|Timon of Athens]]''
** ''[[Troilus and Cressida (Theatre)|Troilus and Cressida]]''
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]''
* ''The Battle of Olympus''
* ''[[Kid Icarus (Video Game)|Kid Icarus]]''
* ''[[Empire Earth]]''
* ''[[Age of Empires I (Video Game)|Age of Empires I]]'', as well as ''[[Age of Mythology (Video Game)|Age of Mythology]]''; also, ''[[Rise of Nations]]'' has a tour through the "Classical Age"
* The ''[[Civilization (Video Game)|Civilization]]'' series when playing as Greece.
* The first two games in the ''[[Hegemony Series (Video Game)|Hegemony Series]]''.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Gastrophobia (Webcomic)|Gastrophobia]]''
* ''[http://www.bigheadpress.com/otr Odysseus the Rebel]''
* ''[http://prometheuscomic.wordpress.com/ Prometheus!]''
* ''[http://amazoness.co.uk Amazoness!]''
* ''[[Rumors of War (Webcomic)|Rumors of War]]'': Somewhere between the Late Bronze Age and the Classical Period, presumably in the Greek Dark Ages.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'', this is seemingly where the Holiday figures (Santa Claus, Tom Turkey, etc.) got their origins.
 
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