The vast majority of Roman and Byzantine fiction is produced by Euro-American authors (for obvious reasons). I recently came across the excellent novel "Azazeel" by Youssef Ziedan, set during Byzantine Egypt, which has gotten me interested in fiction from perspectives outside that norm. Anyone know of any other good examples?
(To expand the field a bit, it can also include Diaspora writers, such as "Pride of Carthage" by David Anthony Durham, who is Afro-Caribbean)
by Worried-Boot-1508
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Doubt this will count but Colleen McCullough’s series starting with *The First Man in Rome* is def her masterwork. She is Australian, so not particularly un-European. I’d recommend it, though, as a fan of the genre.
*The Thornbirds* always weird me tf out though