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Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome

Mike Ashley

First published 1998
Publisher Robinson
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xii+516
Price £6.99
ISBN 1854878654

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Paris and Helen (excerpt from Helen) Edward Lucas White Short Fiction
17 No Place Like Home Tom Holt Short Story
25 The Thread Vera Chapman Short Story
36 Where Is the Bird of Fire? Thomas Burnett Swann Novella
81 The Story of Gyges (excerpt from The History of Herodotus) Herodotus Short Fiction
85 The Slave of Marathon Arthur D. Howden Smith Novelette
105 The Kidnapping (excerpt from The Gate of Yesterday) Margery Lawrence Short Fiction
124 The Wearer of Purple Pierre Louÿs Short Story
143 The Gods Play for High Stakes Langston Day Novelette
167 The Horse from Thessaly Mary Renault Short Story
176 The Banquet of Death Peter Tremayne Short Story
195 The Preparation (excerpt from The Conquered) Naomi Mitchison Short Fiction
211 The Mountain Wolves John Maddox Roberts Novelette
245 The Rise of Augustus (excerpt from Augustus) Allan Massie Short Fiction
264 One of Cleopatra's Nights Théophile Gautier Novelette
294 The Chariot Race (excerpt from Ben-Hur, or The Days of the Messiah) Lew Wallace Short Fiction
313 Caligula the God (excerpt from I, Claudius) Robert Graves Short Fiction
327 Betrayed Juliet Dymoke Short Story
344 Captain Leopard L. Sprague de Camp Short Story
351 Sword of Freedom E. C. Tubb Short Story
360 The Last Letter Derek Wilson Short Story
379 The Last Day of Pompeii (excerpt) Edward Bulwer-Lytton Short Fiction
405 Marcellus Takes the Biscuit Leopold Spero Short Story
419 Fortunatus R. H. Stewart Novelette
446 The Walking Walls of Rome Keith Taylor Novelette
467 Æolf the Martyr A. W. Marchmont Short Story
473 The Temple of Death A. C. Benson Short Story
487 The Great World and the Small Darrell Schweitzer Short Story
499 The Crown of the Golden Chain Max Pemberton Short Story
v The Golden Age (Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome) Mike Ashley Essay
vii The Fiction of History Mary Renault Essay