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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 477 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,115 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,378 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,940 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 292 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,357 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,287 ratings — published -400
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 354,795 ratings — published 180
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,757 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,914 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,654 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,186 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 178,242 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,096 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,773 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,938 ratings — published -350
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,183 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,070 ratings — published -431
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,937 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,552 ratings — published -350
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,546 ratings — published 2015
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,783 ratings — published -423
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,798 ratings — published -335
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,062 ratings — published -450
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,951 ratings — published 121
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,409 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,338 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,736 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,129 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 57,352 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,021,556 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,624 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 74,878 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,808 ratings — published -480
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,077 ratings — published -350
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,302 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 165,341 ratings — published 2017
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,185 ratings — published -475
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,986 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,629 ratings — published -405
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,644 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,509 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,662 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,367,840 ratings — published 2018
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,792 ratings — published 2003
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,483 ratings — published -250
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,749 ratings — published 60
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,883 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,905 ratings — published -550
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,961 ratings — published 2014
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,608 ratings — published -401
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,341 ratings — published 116
“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
“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
