Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

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The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Xolo
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
Of Love and Treason
Between the Wild Branches (The Covenant House, #2)
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Before the King: Joanna's Story (Women of the Way, #2)
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
Sparrow (Sparrow, #1)
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
The Republic
Meditations
Metamorphoses
The Histories
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Symposium
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Nicomachean Ethics
Medea
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Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
The Bhagavad Gita

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The smiles of ancient souls That bless this, Our space to live and learn And urge us on to shine again…
Scott Hastie

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