Book list for ancient history: Upper Elementary through Middle School

Books are on an antique camel bag from Tarsus, Anatolia.

​An initial book list for Ancient history, upper elementary through middle school (there will likely be additions to this list over time):

Ancient History for the fluent reader, 
late elementary through middle school

Literature:

The Old Testament

The Bible and the Holy Fathers for Orthodox

The Law of God, by Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoi (better choice for early Elementary)

The Law of God, by Fr. Daniel Sysoev (better choice for upper Elementary through adulthood)

Lessons in the Old Testament, by Fr. Serge Kotar (3rd Grade Curriculum from St. John of Shanghai school in San Francisco)

A Sacred History for Children, Edited Nancy Mirolovich; Illustrated Gabriela Moustardas 

Our Young Folks’ Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews and the Jewish Wars 

Our Young Folks’ Plutarch (a children’s versions for Greek and Roman lives):

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (Greek mythology)

Tanglewood Tales (Greek mythology)

DK Eyewitness Books: Mesopotamia

DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Egypt

DK Eyewitness Books: Ancient Greece

Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian Costume

Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors, by Marian Broida (activity book)

Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors, By Marian Broida (activity book)

Gilgamesh the King (I recommend this version for high school as well, because the original is quite pornographic in nature)

The Revenge of Ishtar (I recommend this version for high school as well, because the original is quite pornographic in nature)

The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (I recommend this version for high school as well, because the original is quite pornographic in nature)
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The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Mara, Daughter of the Nile (some romantic content)

The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

​The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

The Wanderings of Odysseus, by Rosemary Sutcliff

Black Ships Before Troy, by Rosemary Sutcliff

Hittite Warrior

Archimedes and the Door of Science
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Galen and the Gateway to Medicine

God King: A Story to the Days of King Hezekiah

Herodotus And the Road to History

Victory on the Walls, A Story of Nehemiah

Book of Centuries:

Actual bound book as Charlotte Mason used in her schools

Book of Centuries Source Book: The Ancient World (in development)

Ancient History Portfolio and Timeline (A curriculum inspired by the book of centuries idea though not actually following Charlotte Mason’s philosophy. Developed by an Orthodox Christian. Recommended for ages 9 and up)

Ancient History Portfolio Junior (recommended for ages 5-10)

Poetry and Copywork:

Lives of Old Testament Saints in chronological order from the prologue including Troparia for copywork is in development.

Quotes from Proverbs, hymns from Exodus.

Nature Study:

Glory to God for All Things! Nature Journal

Citizenship/Virtue Study:

From I-ville to You-ville, by Angeliki Delecha

Lives of Old Testament Saints

Proverbs