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Ancient Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,190,400 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 441 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,780 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,858 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 293 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,254 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,733 ratings — published -400
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 347,244 ratings — published 180
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,210 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,581 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 237,107 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,738 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 176,392 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,824 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,560 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 570,060 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,178 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,129 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,640 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,160 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 53,372 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,312 ratings — published 2015
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,465 ratings — published -335
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,778 ratings — published 121
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,731 ratings — published -450
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 346,095 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,195 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,805 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 81,520 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 56,308 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,976,756 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,429 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,996 ratings — published 400
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,826 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,543 ratings — published -480
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,944 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 161,860 ratings — published 2017
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,999 ratings — published -475
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,328 ratings — published -405
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,887 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,565 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,064 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,532 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,343,219 ratings — published 2018
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,258 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,680 ratings — published 60
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,382 ratings — published -250
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,746 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,650 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,439 ratings — published -401
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,306 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,734 ratings — published 2014
“I know you're undead, but that drink might kill you."
"I have seen empires rise like the slow, bright dawn and crumble to dust like a cookie in a clenched fist. I am as ancient as the foundations of the Earth itself. This won't hurt me."
"You're fifty-three, Sapphire. You were turned two decades ago.”
― Sapphire
"I have seen empires rise like the slow, bright dawn and crumble to dust like a cookie in a clenched fist. I am as ancient as the foundations of the Earth itself. This won't hurt me."
"You're fifty-three, Sapphire. You were turned two decades ago.”
― Sapphire
“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
