Best-Selling Children's Stories of Antiquity

1. Curious Georgics
Octavian's favorite chimpanzee waxes lyrical about farming in Cisalpine Gaul

2. Vercingetorix and the Three Bears
"Who's been eating my porridge?" demands Baby Bear. Oh no! It was Julius Caesar and an invading Roman army.

3. The Judgement of Paris Through the Looking-Glass
"Eat me!" snarls Athena when Paris decides that the Queen of Hearts is the most beautiful woman in the world.

4. Dr Suetonious' classic The Catullus in the Hatullus and How the Sphinx Stole Christmas

5. Thucydidums' History of the Penelope Pitstop War
Penelope and her allies battle Spartan Sneakly for control of the Attic plain.

6. What Cato Did and What Cato Did Next by Susan M Carthage
Roman senator learns how noble The Republic is after experiencing a series of mishaps.

7. Aeneid Blyton's Famous V and Secret VII stories.
Upper-class Trojan kids incur the wrath of Juno while cycling to Italy

8. And, of course, the entire works of Juvenal

Comments

[Dr Maroon]

Castor and Pollux go shopping for bread and slaves. Classic from the early reader series where the pair find that Artaxerxes has burnt the harvest and put the land to the sword.

[Anna]

I'm VERY fond of Aeneid Blyton.

Have been trying in vain to think of a title for a book by Elsie Biades.

[stephenesque]

His Greek Materials?

[Anna]

Just so. Masterly.