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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,300,313 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 473 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,503 ratings — published -750
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,427 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 314 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 150,007 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.27 — 387,833 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 234,876 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,541 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,570 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 211 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 245,223 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,973 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 184 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 185,729 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,640 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,779 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,082 ratings — published -350
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 603,208 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,843 ratings — published -431
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,332 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 189,459 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 55,219 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,061 ratings — published 2015
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,612 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,286 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.51 — 359,112 ratings — published 950
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,758 ratings — published 121
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,095 ratings — published 175
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 62,478 ratings — published 64
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 72,104 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 85,220 ratings — published -400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,520 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,864 ratings — published -480
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 182,644 ratings — published 2017
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,214,054 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,178 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,437 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,980 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,946 ratings — published -405
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,393 ratings — published -370
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 25,023 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,063 ratings — published -55
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,504,463 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,120 ratings — published -50
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,945 ratings — published -250
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,923 ratings — published 1934
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,700 ratings — published 2014
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,846 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,094 ratings — published 60
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,439 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,634 ratings — published 2005
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,863 ratings — published 1776
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,938 ratings — published -60
“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA
If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky,
It will shine a billion
Beautiful miracles
Painted from the tears
Of the Most High.
Plucked from the lush gardens
Of a yellowish-green paradise,
Look inside this hypnotic gem
And a kaleidoscope of
Titillating,
Soul-raising
Sights and colors
Will tease and seduce
Your eyes and mind.
Tell me, sir.
Have you ever heard
A peacock sing?
Hold your ear
To this mystical stone
And you will hear
Sacred hymns flowing
To the vibrations
Of the perfumed
Wind.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky,
It will shine a billion
Beautiful miracles
Painted from the tears
Of the Most High.
Plucked from the lush gardens
Of a yellowish-green paradise,
Look inside this hypnotic gem
And a kaleidoscope of
Titillating,
Soul-raising
Sights and colors
Will tease and seduce
Your eyes and mind.
Tell me, sir.
Have you ever heard
A peacock sing?
Hold your ear
To this mystical stone
And you will hear
Sacred hymns flowing
To the vibrations
Of the perfumed
Wind.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Serpent heart of ancient terrors.”
― The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
― The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
