Genres

Classical Antiquity


Classical Antiquity Books

The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Aeneid
Meditations
The Histories
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Metamorphoses
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Republic
The Symposium
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Golden Ass
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The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Art of War by Sun TzuAesop’s Fables by Aesop
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Quotes Tagged “Classical Antiquity”

Mary Beard
“ Classics is a subject that exists in that gap between us and the word of the Greeks and Romans. The questions raised by Classics are the questions raised by our distance from 'their' world, and at the same time by our closeness to it, and its familiarity to us. In our museums, in our literature, languages, culture, and ways of thinking. The aim of Classics is not only to discover or uncover the ancient world (though that is part of it, as the rediscovery of Bassae, or the excavation of the furth ...more ”
― Mary Beard, Classics: A Very Short Introduction
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