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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,180,032 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 505,202 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,066 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 296 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,399 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,252 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,744 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 338,003 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,292 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,881 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,499 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,020 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,794 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,376 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,392 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,494 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,306 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,342 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,940 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,120 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,156 ratings — published 2015
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,241 ratings — published -335
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,667 ratings — published 121
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,489 ratings — published -450
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,060 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,073 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,000 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,943 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 55,238 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,944,998 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,286 ratings — published -700
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,563 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,365 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,322 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,656 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,893 ratings — published -475
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 159,668 ratings — published 2017
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,809 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,420 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,159 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,747 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,443 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,326,710 ratings — published 2018
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,620 ratings — published 60
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,828 ratings — published 2003
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,441 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,344 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,623 ratings — published 2005
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,299 ratings — published -250
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,273 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,546 ratings — published 2014
“...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
“For some, the path to enlightenment leads to a revelation; for others, it ends with a slide into insanity.”
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
