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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,246,537 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 461 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 528,574 ratings — published -750
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,862 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 303 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,375 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.27 — 373,929 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,303 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,193 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,937 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,344 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,126 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,283 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,171 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,344 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,742 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,134 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,060 ratings — published -500
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,776 ratings — published -560
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,598 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,117 ratings — published 2015
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,858 ratings — published -350
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,922 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,614 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,146 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,386 ratings — published 121
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 70,223 ratings — published -399
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,778 ratings — published 159
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,915 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 60,139 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,126,841 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,032 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,371 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 77,404 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,143 ratings — published -400
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 173,882 ratings — published 2017
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,659 ratings — published -350
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,302 ratings — published -405
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,655 ratings — published -475
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,203 ratings — published -370
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,861 ratings — published -55
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,428,471 ratings — published 2018
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,850 ratings — published 1934
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,752 ratings — published -250
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,915 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,266 ratings — published 2003
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,784 ratings — published 2014
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,949 ratings — published 60
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,069 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,297 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,697 ratings — published 1776
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,514 ratings — published -550
“To the Hesitating Purchaser:
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold
And all the old romance, retold,
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day:
-So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave,
Where these and their creations lie!”
―
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold
And all the old romance, retold,
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day:
-So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave,
Where these and their creations lie!”
―
“The smiles of ancient souls
That bless this,
Our space to live and learn
And urge us on to shine again…”
―
That bless this,
Our space to live and learn
And urge us on to shine again…”
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