Recommended Reading on Greece suggestions by Rick Steves Non-Fiction Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way Cahill, Thomas. Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter Boatswain, Timothy and Colin Nicolson. A Traveller’s History of Greece Fiction Homer. The Iliad Homer. The Odyssey Renault, Mary. The Persian Boy, Fire from Heaven, Funeral Games (historical fiction about Alexander the Great) Renault, Mary. The King Must Die, The Bull from the Sea (re-imagining of the Theseus myth) Films Alexander the Great (2004) with Colin Farrell Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt as Achilles Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010) which tells the myth of Perseus The Trojan Women (1971) with Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave in Euripides’ classic tragedy Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) is the love story of an Italian officer and a Greek woman Never on Sunday (1960) with Melina Mercouri as a free-spirited prostitute who will not be tamed by an American intellectual Zorba the Greek (1964) My Life in Ruins (2009) with Nia Vardalos in a comedy about rival tour guides in Greece Mamma Mia! (2008) with Meryl Streep