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Need Ancient Greece book substitution suggestions
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Hello!
Currently I am doing the SCM Ancient Greece handbook with my 12 year-old son. We are condensing this into one term so that we can do all of the ancient time period in one year. I’m looking ahead to what we’ll be doing this term and I just realized that we already read The Wanderings of Odysseus — and it was just last year for fun (my son enjoys the Greek myths). So I don’t want to have him read it again so soon. Does anyone have any suggestions that I could have him read instead? Maybe an interesting biography of someone from that time period?
I’ve been looking around at other curriculum sites for suggestions that might be set in ancient greece, but it seems most books are Greek myths – and honestly, I think he has been reading enough of these stories (he read 2 different Greek myth books last year, we are doing the Famous Men of Greece right now plus Black Ships Before Troy). So I’m looking for something different.
Thanks in advance!
What about Archimedes and the Door of Science? It’s assigned for 4-6 grade, but it is interesting for older students too.
Hi Sonya! Thanks for the suggestion, but I actually already have him reading that one right now as well.
I was checking in my All Through the Ages book and found that Alfred Church wrote Young Macedonian, a story of Alexander the Great. Might be another possibility to research. I haven’t read it, but Alfred Church is usually good.
That reminds me, I believe G. A. Henty wrote one set in Ancient Greece: The Young Carthaginian.
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