The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
 The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate is a historical novel by L. Sprague de Camp first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1961 and in paperback by Lancer Books in 1968. The first trade paperback edition was issued by Starblaze in 1982. The book was reissued as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in 2013. It is the third of his historical novels in order of writing and earliest chronologically. It is set in 466-465 BC the last years of the reign of King Xerxes I of Persia.