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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 512 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,284,860 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 536,923 ratings — published -750
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,161 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 307 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,871 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,094 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,011 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,978 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,282 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 243,778 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,541 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 181 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,943 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,530 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,573 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,342 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,993 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 597,673 ratings — published -500
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,057 ratings — published -560
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,655 ratings — published 2015
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,842 ratings — published -423
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 188,059 ratings — published -350
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,282 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,915 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,782 ratings — published 950
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,578 ratings — published 121
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,274 ratings — published -399
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 61,346 ratings — published 64
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,962 ratings — published 159
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,568 ratings — published -400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,304 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,601 ratings — published -480
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,179,755 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,864 ratings — published -350
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,581 ratings — published -400
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 179,432 ratings — published 2017
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 78,466 ratings — published 400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,582 ratings — published -405
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,835 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,976 ratings — published -55
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,310 ratings — published -370
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,472,630 ratings — published 2018
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,412 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,018 ratings — published -50
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,318 ratings — published 2014
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,859 ratings — published -250
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,899 ratings — published 2003
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,248 ratings — published -401
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,032 ratings — published 60
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,491 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,757 ratings — published -550
Medea and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,739 ratings — published -428
“That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky
And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief
and then one by one,
we stood tall
and came together
and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true
And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.”
― Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind
And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief
and then one by one,
we stood tall
and came together
and began to sing of life and love and all that is good and true
And I will never forget that day when the ancient songs died because there was no one in the world to sing them.”
― Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind
“If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?”
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