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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,162 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,951 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,442 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 290 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,489 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,880 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,258 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 332,389 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,073 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 234,556 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,179 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 173,225 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,826 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,222 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 559,819 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,746 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,650 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,096 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 — 179,811 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,821 ratings — published -423
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,995 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,156 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,441 ratings — published 121
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,251 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,945 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,246 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,438 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,414 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,920,006 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 — 42,373 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,698 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 — 45,289 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,746 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,371 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,395 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,723 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,863 ratings — published -405
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,386 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,699 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,376 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 — 21,255 ratings — published -550
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,381 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,555 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 — 9,242 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
“But a smell shivered him awake.
It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.
The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he opened them. Through the dying calm inside him snaked a tremble of fear.
The trees themselves seemed tense, waiting. The moonlight was a hard shell, sharp and ready to ready be struck and to ring like steel.
A shadow moved.
It poured like oil from between the tall trees and flowed across dark sandy dirt, lengthening into the middle of the ring. Trees seem to bend toward it, spellbound. A long, long shadow...”
― The Dead Path
It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.
The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he opened them. Through the dying calm inside him snaked a tremble of fear.
The trees themselves seemed tense, waiting. The moonlight was a hard shell, sharp and ready to ready be struck and to ring like steel.
A shadow moved.
It poured like oil from between the tall trees and flowed across dark sandy dirt, lengthening into the middle of the ring. Trees seem to bend toward it, spellbound. A long, long shadow...”
― The Dead Path
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