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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,164,805 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 427 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,351 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,056 ratings — published -1200
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 276 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,750 ratings — published -19
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,851 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 221,545 ratings — published -400
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 326,959 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,926 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.72 — 233,145 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 45,861 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 171,650 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 86,914 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,063 ratings — published -411
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,005 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,568 ratings — published -500
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,986 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 128,859 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 178,504 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,583 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 69,984 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,729 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 339,777 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,319 ratings — published 121
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,110 ratings — published 2015
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,490 ratings — published -399
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,852 ratings — published 159
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,875 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 53,562 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,894,299 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,104 ratings — published -350
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,001 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,005 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,979 ratings — published -480
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,620 ratings — published -475
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,029 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,569 ratings — published -405
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,298 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,067 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,648 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 155,048 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,295,997 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,291 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,965 ratings — published 2003
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,122 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,006 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,103 ratings — published -401
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,494 ratings — published 60
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,366 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,217 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,158 ratings — published 2014
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
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“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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