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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 468 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,180,445 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 505,373 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 324 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,110 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 296 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,448 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,342 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,780 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 338,298 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,302 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,947 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,508 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,100 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,848 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,384 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,650 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,530 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,349 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,362 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,987 ratings — published -350
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 80,212 ratings — published 2015
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,136 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,498 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,258 ratings — published -335
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,676 ratings — published 121
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 344,148 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,085 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,028 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,971 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 55,299 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,946,277 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,292 ratings — published -700
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,583 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,362 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,377 ratings — published -480
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,683 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,901 ratings — published -475
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 159,758 ratings — published 2017
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,812 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,422 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,168 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,762 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,446 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,327,409 ratings — published 2018
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,850 ratings — published 2003
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,303 ratings — published -250
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,625 ratings — published 60
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,451 ratings — published -550
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,629 ratings — published 2005
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,348 ratings — published -401
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,277 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,555 ratings — published 2014
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.”
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“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
