Classical Studies

Classics (also Classical Studies) is the branch of the humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (Bronze Age ca. BC 3000 – Late Antiquity ca. AD 300–600); especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity (ca. BC 600 – AD 600). Traditionally, the study of the Classics (the period's literature) was the principal study of the humanities. ...more

The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Histories
Metamorphoses
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Symposium
The Republic
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Lysistrata
The Twelve Caesars
Medea
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

Most Read This Week

Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It
Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirWomen's Work by Elizabeth Wayland BarberCleopatra by Stacy SchiffSex with Kings by Eleanor HermanShe-Wolves by Helen Castor
Women's History Written By Women
974 books — 191 voters
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Secret Magdalene by Ki LongfellowNefertiti by Michelle    MoranCleopatra's Daughter by Michelle    Moran
Awesome Women of the Ancient World
434 books — 950 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Aeneid by VirgilLord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
About the Trojan War
273 books — 258 voters

The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Silence of the Girls by Pat BarkerThe Iliad by Homer
Best Trojan War Retellings
93 books — 133 voters
I, Claudius by Robert GravesThe First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloughClaudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert GravesThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusPompeii by Robert   Harris
Best Books About Ancient Rome
738 books — 1,084 voters