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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,066 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,928 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,435 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 290 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,487 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,866 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,254 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 332,334 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,070 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 234,539 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,177 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 173,210 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,811 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,221 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 559,770 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,735 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,642 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,097 ratings — published -560
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,205 ratings — published -450
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,799 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,820 ratings — published -423
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,993 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,152 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,440 ratings — published 121
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 341,963 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,944 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,240 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,430 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,409 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,919,740 ratings — published 2011
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,144 ratings — published -480
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,369 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,694 ratings — published 400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,150 ratings — published -700
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,287 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,744 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,370 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,393 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,722 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,860 ratings — published -405
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,365 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,556 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,374 ratings — published -50
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,196 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,248 ratings — published -550
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,377 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,554 ratings — published 60
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,233 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,491 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,241 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,353 ratings — published 2014
“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.”
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“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
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