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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,180,242 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 505,300 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,080 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 296 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,425 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,297 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,760 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 338,135 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,294 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,922 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,504 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,064 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,822 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,378 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,523 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,517 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,323 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,351 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,958 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,128 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,181 ratings — published 2015
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,248 ratings — published -335
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,672 ratings — published 121
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,493 ratings — published -450
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,096 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,079 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,017 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,955 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 55,261 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,945,661 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,287 ratings — published -700
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,575 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,374 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,345 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,669 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,898 ratings — published -475
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 159,714 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 — 14,421 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,160 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,757 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,444 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,327,104 ratings — published 2018
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,621 ratings — published 60
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,837 ratings — published 2003
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,444 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,346 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 — 11,627 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 — 9,275 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,548 ratings — published 2014
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
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“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago
He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets.”
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He would've thought they were birds
Or angels from another world
Or messengers from other planets.”
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