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Phèdre (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 24,828 ratings — published 1677
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 82,026 ratings — published 2015
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 511,460 ratings — published -800
Tartuffe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 43,376 ratings — published 1664
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 226,681 ratings — published -400
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,197,291 ratings — published -800
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,948 ratings — published 2024
The Latinist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.42 — 3,680 ratings — published 2022
Don Juan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 17,873 ratings — published 1665
Le Cid (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 17,140 ratings — published 1636
The Princesse de Clèves (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.35 — 18,921 ratings — published 1678
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 6,647 ratings — published 2017
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 5,420 ratings — published 2008
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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avg rating 3.73 — 238,009 ratings — published -429
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,402 ratings — published 2017
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 27,567 ratings — published 2003
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,357,580 ratings — published 2018
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 2,419 ratings — published 2013
The Symposium (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 90,604 ratings — published -380
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,080,253 ratings — published 1847
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 4,823,548 ratings — published 1813
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 70,915 ratings — published -450
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 87,849 ratings — published 2005
Lysistrata (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 53,594 ratings — published -423
Clouds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 11,845 ratings — published -423
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 21,693 ratings — published -480
Katabasis (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 123,127 ratings — published 2025
Ungdomsdramer I (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.50 — 8 ratings — published 1869
The Literary Pocket Companion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 63 ratings — published 2004
Apología de Raimundo Sabunde (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 6 ratings — published
The Education of Cyrus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,215 ratings — published -360
Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Discourse on Metaphysics/The Monadology (Philosophical Classics)
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avg rating 3.74 — 268 ratings — published 1992
Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 83,440 ratings — published 1516
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 206,835 ratings — published 1321
Reservoir Bitches (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 17,647 ratings — published 2019
Nightcrawling (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 60,844 ratings — published 2022
Wearing the Lion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,109 ratings — published 2025
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 30,072 ratings — published 1321
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,464 ratings — published 2023
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
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avg rating 4.59 — 207,926 ratings — published 2023
The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 4
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avg rating 4.57 — 8,296 ratings — published 2015
The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 3
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avg rating 4.52 — 7,678 ratings — published 2015
The Leavers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 50,830 ratings — published 2017
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.73 — 605,209 ratings — published 2017
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
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avg rating 4.16 — 45,824 ratings — published 49
Conqueror's Blood (Gunmetal Gods, #2)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,171 ratings — published 2021
Piranesi (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 478,796 ratings — published 2020
Malice (Malice Duology, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 33,489 ratings — published 2021
Babylonia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 14,696 ratings — published 2024
“As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you makes your choice!” That may be the most American sentence ever written.”
― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
“Compare with Greek art, modern classical art is lacking in warmth and immediacy; it has a derived, retrospective, and, even in the Renaissance, a more or less classicistic character. It It is the reflection of a society which, filled with reminiscences of Roman heroism and medieval chivalry, tries to appear to be something which it is not, by following an artificially produced social and moral code, and which stylizes the whole pattern of its life in accordance with this fictitious scheme. Classical art describes this society as it wants to see itself and as it wants to be seen. There is hardly a feature in this art which would not, on closer examination, prove to be anything more than the translation into artistic terms of the aristocratic, conservative ideals cherished by this society striving for permanence and continuity. The whole artistic fromalism of the Cinquecento merely corresponds to the formalized system of moral conceptions and decorum which the upper class of the period imposes on itself. Just as the aristocracy and the aristocratically minded circles of society subject life to the rule of a formal code, in order to preserve it from the anarchy of the emotions, so they also submit the expression of the emotions in art to the censorship of definite, abstract, and impersonal forms.”
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
