Why non-fiction necessarily? There are in fact many very good books, by eminent and respected scholars with intimate knowledge of the language and period acquired over many many years, which (no disrespect intended)) you will find hard to equal, much less better. And still most people have never heard of Seleucus. So, if you want to make Antiochius, Seleucus et al as famous and popular as Caesar, Caligula and Nero then you need to write a good novel, screenplay or best of all a graphic novel. Why don't you do a Xenophon comic, or write a novel about Iphicrates? Just think, where would Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus be without Robert Graves?
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