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Ancient Texts Books
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The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.93 — 519,986 ratings — published -800
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,216,163 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,140 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,646 ratings — published -19
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,402 ratings — published 8
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,005 ratings — published -411
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,083 ratings — published -400
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,350 ratings — published -430
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,136 ratings — published -423
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.28 — 363,173 ratings — published 180
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.69 — 180,107 ratings — published -441
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,285 ratings — published -1500
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,952 ratings — published 1000
The Rule of Four (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.29 — 38,743 ratings — published 2004
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.29 — 185,100 ratings — published -350
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.73 — 240,349 ratings — published -429
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,791 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.00 — 75,899 ratings — published 400
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,335 ratings — published -560
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,929 ratings — published -500
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,428 ratings — published -450
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 8 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,590 ratings — published -250
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,613 ratings — published -458
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,113 ratings — published -335
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,956 ratings — published -400
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,151 ratings — published 121
Daphnis and Chloe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,976 ratings — published 150
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,828 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,003 ratings — published -431
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.43 — 22,186 ratings — published -550
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,391 ratings — published -475
The Upanishads (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,933 ratings — published -500
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,965 ratings — published -29
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,983 ratings — published 1220
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,039 ratings — published -480
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,423 ratings — published -380
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,669 ratings — published -400
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,083 ratings — published -400
City of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,911 ratings — published 426
The Holy Bible: King James Version (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.45 — 322,830 ratings — published 1611
Gorgias (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,990 ratings — published -380
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,742 ratings — published -55
Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,233 ratings — published -440
The Jewish War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,993 ratings — published 75
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,692 ratings — published -60
The Rise of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,888 ratings — published -170
The Persians (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,053 ratings — published -472
The Acharnians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,135 ratings — published -425
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,278 ratings — published 300
The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-texts)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,141 ratings — published -392
“The actual material disappearance of the books was largely the effect of climate and pests. Thought papyrus and parchment were long lived, books inevitably deteriorated over the centuries, even if they managed the escape the ravages of fire and flood.”
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
― The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“From the next hour he will be reading from ancient text."
"How ancient, I asked, a thousend years or last weeks?"
"Very ancient, the girl said solemmly, but it is a forgivable interuption under those cicumstances, and the texts will just become more ancient in waiting.”
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"How ancient, I asked, a thousend years or last weeks?"
"Very ancient, the girl said solemmly, but it is a forgivable interuption under those cicumstances, and the texts will just become more ancient in waiting.”
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