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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,015 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 501,887 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,423 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 290 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,482 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,858 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,254 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 332,294 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,067 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 234,530 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,173 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 173,209 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,805 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,219 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 559,741 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,728 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,637 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 — 70,206 ratings — published -450
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,790 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 — 28,992 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,150 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,435 ratings — published 121
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 341,955 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,944 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,235 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,428 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,402 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,919,591 ratings — published 2011
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,145 ratings — published -480
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,369 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,692 ratings — published 400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,149 ratings — published -700
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,285 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,744 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,369 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,390 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,722 ratings — published -400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,859 ratings — published -405
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,349 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,311,468 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,373 ratings — published -50
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,195 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,249 ratings — published -550
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,372 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,553 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 — 11,490 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,240 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,351 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
“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
