Ancient Greece has been fascinating to study. We’ve used a variety of books to deepen our knowledge and understanding of this time in history. A time in history that has contributed to and influenced so many things in our current society.
One of my absolute favorite things about homeschooling is redeeming my own education and getting to dive deep into things that I was only able to “scratch the surface” of during my time in school.
These are the books we used to dive into the world of Ancient Greece. I gave the suggested age range of grades 3-6 but you know your kids best so don’t feel like you need to be confined to that!
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Our “spine” books that we use for all of history:
A Child’s History of the World by Hillyer. A great overview of history.
Story of the World Volume 1 We only do SOTW on audiobook, the kids (and hubs!) just love listening to Jim Weiss.
Other books that cover much of history:
Time Traveler Usborne (this is one to OWN!)
Atlas of World History Another Usborne book!
Non-Fiction Books
Usborne Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Usborne yet again 🙂
Horrible Histories: The Groovy Greeks and Rotten Roman’s Confession – these are bit much for my taste BUT based on fact that my kids love it and are learning a ton in the process, I have it on the list… I catch my daughter reading and re-reading this one often! I got this one off eBay, not sure why it’s priced so ridiculously high on Amazon!
Archimedes and the Door of Science We were fascinated by Archimedes and his inventions and creativity!
Ancient Greece by Daniel Cohen – Fabulous illustrations and easy to understand text.
Fiction:
D’aulaire book of Greek Myths BEAUTIFUL illustrations!
Theras and His Town A great historical fiction novel contrasting the Spartans and Athenians. Probably the book that surprised us the most. Despite the slow start it ended up being a favorite!
Aesop’s Fables Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Aesop’s Fables: A Pop-Up Book of Classic Tales This is a great book to introduce younger kids (though my older kids liked it too!) to Aesop’s fables. The pop outs are incredible.
The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Illiad, also by Rosemary Sutcliff (we actually did not get to this one yet, but is written by the same author as Wanderings of Odysseus)
The Usborne Illustrated Odyssey Can’t get enough of Usborne! This is a simpler version of the Odyssey and a good book to use to introduce it (The Odyssey) to kids.
Check out my other history book lists!
