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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,173,654 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.93 — 502,581 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 187 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,651 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.28 — 333,471 ratings — published 180
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,352 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,091 ratings — published -430
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.97 — 223,171 ratings — published -400
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,621 ratings — published -2000
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 110 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.68 — 173,583 ratings — published -441
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,339 ratings — published 2015
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.73 — 234,821 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,247 ratings — published -458
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,254 ratings — published -411
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,001 ratings — published -380
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,891 ratings — published -431
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,924,840 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,314,722 ratings — published 2018
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,471 ratings — published 121
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,867 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,261 ratings — published -450
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,774 ratings — published -350
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,392 ratings — published -50
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,792 ratings — published 400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,572 ratings — published 64
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,376 ratings — published -55
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,968 ratings — published 159
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,468 ratings — published 1934
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,050 ratings — published -335
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 24,950 ratings — published -405
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,745 ratings — published -400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,188 ratings — published -480
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,494 ratings — published 2003
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,141 ratings — published -560
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.95 — 560,637 ratings — published -500
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,184 ratings — published -700
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,409 ratings — published -350
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,018 ratings — published -350
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,380 ratings — published -399
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,814 ratings — published -29
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,273 ratings — published -550
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,487 ratings — published -60
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,255 ratings — published -401
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,566 ratings — published 60
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.22 — 35,220 ratings — published 1951
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 37 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,357 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.26 — 157,872 ratings — published 2017
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,058 ratings — published -410
Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.84 — 22,356 ratings — published -472
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,512 ratings — published -400
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,254 ratings — published 116
“Read the books which they [the ancients] have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them” - St Bernardino of Siena (d. 1444)”
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