Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, January 28, 1998, 1-85487-865-4, £6.99, xii+516pp, tp, an, cover by Lionel Noel Royer)
Reprint (Past Times 1996 as Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome) associational anthology of stories. Includes stories by Darrell Schweitzer, Thomas Burnett Swann, E.C. Tubb, and L. Sprague de Camp. This edition adds stories and extracts by Herodotus, Lawrence, Day, Gautier, Bulwer-Lytton, Spero, Marchmont, and Benson; and an original story by Tom Holt. A simultaneous Magpie edition (export-only as Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories) was not seen.
- v · The Golden Age · Mike Ashley · in Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- vii · The Fiction of History · Mary Renault · ar The London Magazine March 1979
- 1 · Paris and Helen · Edward Lucas White · ex from Helen, Jonathan Cape, 1925
- 17 · No Place Like Home · Tom Holt · ss
- 25 · The Thread · Vera Chapman · ss The Phoenix Tree ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski, Avon, 1980
- 36 · Where Is the Bird of Fire? [Mellonia] · Thomas Burnett Swann · na Science Fantasy #52, 1962
- 81 · The Story of Gyges · Herodotus; translated by George Rawlinson · ex from The History of Herodotus, John Murray, 1858
translated from the Greek.
- 85 · The Slave of Marathon [Grey Maiden] · Arthur D. Howden Smith · nv Adventure July 23 1926
- 105 · The Kidnapping · Margery Lawrence · ex from The Gate of Yesterday, Robert Hale, 1960
- 124 · The Wearer of Purple · Pierre Louÿs · ss The Collected Works of Pierre Louÿs by Pierre Louÿs, Liveright, 1932
- 143 · The Gods Play for High Stakes · Langston Day · nv Magic Casements by Langston Day, Rider, 1951
- 167 · The Horse from Thessaly · Mary Renault · ss The Twelfth Man ed. Martin Boddey, Cassell, 1971
- 176 · The Banquet of Death · Peter Tremayne · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 195 · The Preparation · Naomi Mitchison · ex from The Conquered, Jonathan Cape, 1923
- 211 · The Mountain Wolves · John Maddox Roberts · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 245 · The Rise of Augustus · Allan Massie · ex from Augustus, The Bodley Head, 1989
- 264 · One of Cleopatra’s Nights · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · nv One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Théophile Gautier, tr. Lafcadio Hearn, B. Worthington, 1882
translated from the French (“Une Nuit de Cléopâtre”, La Presse, November 29 to December 6, 1838).
- 294 · The Chariot Race · Lew Wallace · ex from Ben-Hur, or The Days of the Messiah, 1880
- 313 · Caligula the God · Robert Graves · ex from I, Claudius, A. Barker, 1934
- 327 · Betrayed · Juliet Dymoke · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
adapted from Prisoner of Rome, 1975.
- 344 · Captain Leopard · L. Sprague de Camp · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 351 · Sword of Freedom · E. C. Tubb · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
revised extract from Atilus the Gladiator, Futura Books, 1975.
- 360 · The Last Letter · Derek Wilson · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 379 · The Last Day of Pompeii · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · ex from The Last Days of Pompeii, Richard Bentley, 1834
- 405 · Marcellus Takes the Biscuit [Marcellus] · Leopold Spero · ss Chambers’s Journal May 1945
- 419 · Fortunatus · R. H. Stewart · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 446 · The Walking Walls of Rome · Keith Taylor · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996
- 467 · Æolf the Martyr · A. W. Marchmont · ss The Royal Magazine November 1898
- 473 · The Temple of Death · A. C. Benson · ss The Hill of Trouble by A. C. Benson, Isbister, 1903
- 487 · The Great World and the Small · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Winter 1993
- 499 · The Crown of the Golden Chain [Lady Zoë] · Max Pemberton · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1901
- 514 · Sources and Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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