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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,177,233 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 437 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 504,045 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 117,026 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 295 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,081 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 223,813 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,571 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 336,010 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,205 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,498 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,416 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 174,456 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,450 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,326 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 562,760 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,237 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,087 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,232 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,556 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 53,001 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,379 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,155 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,784 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,507 ratings — published 121
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,031 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,729 ratings — published -399
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 343,403 ratings — published 1000
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,759 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,938 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,936,226 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,496 ratings — published -350
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,254 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,067 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,292 ratings — published -480
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,576 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,843 ratings — published -475
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 158,878 ratings — published 2017
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,769 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,403 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,057 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,627 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,414 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,321,404 ratings — published 2018
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,236 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,378 ratings — published -550
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,597 ratings — published 60
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,673 ratings — published 2003
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,310 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,577 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,266 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,470 ratings — published 2014
“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
