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Books set in Athens · Terra Lecta

Athens

Greece

9 books set in Athens and 2 writers who were born, lived or died there.

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Books set in Athens

MedeaEuripides, 430 BC
A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare, AD 1600
The BirdsAristophanes, 413 BC
The CloudsAristophanes, 422 BC
Timon of AthensWilliam Shakespeare, AD 1623

History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides, 500 BC

More books set in and around Athens

EumenidesAeschylus, 457 BCAt Areopagus
LysistrataAristophanes, 411 BCAt Propylaea of Athens
Oedipus at ColonusSophocles, 400 BCAt Colonus

Writers of Athens

SophoclesDied here
ThucydidesDied here