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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,164,562 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 425 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,232 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,016 ratings — published -1200
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 286 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 139,970 ratings — published -19
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 76,841 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 221,490 ratings — published -400
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 326,766 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,916 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.72 — 233,097 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 45,853 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 171,605 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 86,873 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,059 ratings — published -411
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 84,980 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,425 ratings — published -500
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,973 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 128,849 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 178,452 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,574 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 69,974 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,722 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 339,718 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,313 ratings — published 121
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,074 ratings — published 2015
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,458 ratings — published -399
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,849 ratings — published 159
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 79,851 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 53,526 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,893,425 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,099 ratings — published -350
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,000 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 71,983 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,966 ratings — published -480
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,614 ratings — published -475
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,024 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,562 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 — 72,047 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,645 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 154,971 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,295,425 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,290 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,949 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 — 20,995 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,098 ratings — published -401
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,493 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 — 11,361 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,215 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,149 ratings — published 2014
“....though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. He explained to them that history was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside.
"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
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