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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,210,545 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.93 — 516,608 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,153 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.28 — 359,993 ratings — published 180
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,185 ratings — published 8
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,908 ratings — published -411
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,444 ratings — published -400
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,128 ratings — published -430
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,707 ratings — published -1200
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.96 — 88,626 ratings — published -431
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,303 ratings — published -450
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.73 — 239,725 ratings — published -429
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,053,665 ratings — published 2011
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,466 ratings — published -458
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,385,974 ratings — published 2018
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.94 — 580,367 ratings — published -500
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,916 ratings — published -380
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,465 ratings — published 2015
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 13 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,538 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.32 — 58,084 ratings — published 64
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.29 — 184,440 ratings — published -350
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.00 — 75,491 ratings — published 400
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,989 ratings — published -335
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.69 — 179,406 ratings — published -441
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,835 ratings — published -405
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,192 ratings — published 2003
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.50 — 350,032 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,079 ratings — published 121
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,010 ratings — published -423
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 10 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,553 ratings — published -250
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.41 — 20,233 ratings — published 1962
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,198 ratings — published -560
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,512 ratings — published -350
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,802 ratings — published 1934
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 9 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.16 — 46,854 ratings — published 49
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.26 — 167,831 ratings — published 2017
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,971 ratings — published -480
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,746 ratings — published -700
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,703 ratings — published -55
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,426 ratings — published 1942
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of The Iliad (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,508 ratings — published 1993
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,309 ratings — published -475
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.31 — 61,712 ratings — published 2018
The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,101 ratings — published 1918
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,296 ratings — published -350
The Trojan Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,996 ratings — published -415
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,720 ratings — published -50
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancients)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,265 ratings — published -1500
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ancients)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,455 ratings — published 2019
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near oneself, to honor his house with it, and to be able to have it imitated by those who delight in that art, and how the latter then strive with all industry to represent it in all their works; and seeing, on the other hand, that the most virtuous works the histories show us, which have been done by ancient kingdoms and republics, by kings, captains, citizens, legislators, and others who have labored for their fatherland, are rather admired than imitated—indeed they are so much shunned by everyone in every least thing that no sign of that ancient virtue remains with us—I can do no other than marvel and grieve… From this it arises that the infinite number who read [the histories] take pleasure in hearing of the variety of accidents contained within them without thinking of imitating them, judging that imitation is not only difficult but impossible—as if heaven, sun, elements, men had varied in motion, order, and power from what they were in antiquity. Wishing, therefore, to turn men from this error, I have judged it necessary to write on all those books of Titus Livy...”
― The Discourses
― The Discourses
“It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it gave rise is sad to think upon. But the present generation will probably behave just as badly if another Darwin should arise, and inflict upon them that which the generality of mankind most hate—the necessity of revising their convictions. Let them, then, be charitable to us ancients; and if they behave no better than the men of my day to some new benefactor, let them recollect that, after all, our wrath did not come to much, and vented itself chiefly in the bad language of sanctimonious scolds. Let them as speedily perform a strategic right-about-face, and follow the truth wherever it leads.”
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