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Ancient Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 492 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,225,794 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 523,292 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,778 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 302 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,399 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,069 ratings — published -400
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 367,953 ratings — published 180
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,749 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,646 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,326 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,864 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,139 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,183 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,186 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,276 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,544 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 586,551 ratings — published -500
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,545 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,925 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,365 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,054 ratings — published 2015
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,674 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,367 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,385 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,262 ratings — published 121
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,541 ratings — published -399
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,664 ratings — published 159
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 59,242 ratings — published 64
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,406 ratings — published -400
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,093,222 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,885 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,215 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,632 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,879 ratings — published -400
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 171,008 ratings — published 2017
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,520 ratings — published -350
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,113 ratings — published -405
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,535 ratings — published -475
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,140 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,790 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,471 ratings — published 1934
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,409,214 ratings — published 2018
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,659 ratings — published -250
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,833 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,797 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,896 ratings — published 60
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,543 ratings — published 2014
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,930 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 — 12,164 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,332 ratings — published -550
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,648 ratings — published 1776
“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.”
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“For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced”
― Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
― Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
