- Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by Reynolds and Wilson (1968). This book describes how modern readers have ancient texts to read, and how humans preserved those texts.
- Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne (2004). A very short, compressed primer on Greek history from the Dark Age up to the Roman conquest, written by one of the top experts.
- Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities by Paul Cartledge (2009). Designed for a non-expert audience, but again by a top expert, this book uses a series of microhistories to tell a story of Greece’s history from the Dark Age to the Byzantine Empire.