Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy, #3)
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Of Love and Treason
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Jewel of the Nile
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
Meditations
The Republic
Metamorphoses
The Histories
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Symposium
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Art of War
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Old Timey-Times Fantasy
37 books — 28 voters

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289 books — 322 voters


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