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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,286,667 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 470 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,485 ratings — published -750
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,413 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 308 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,983 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,688 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,179 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,040 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,305 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 210 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 243,917 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,577 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 182 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,094 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,648 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,591 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,384 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,069 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 598,174 ratings — published -500
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,078 ratings — published -560
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,768 ratings — published 2015
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,881 ratings — published -423
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 188,188 ratings — published -350
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,305 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,952 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,991 ratings — published 950
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,593 ratings — published 121
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,355 ratings — published -399
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 61,462 ratings — published 64
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,973 ratings — published 159
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,627 ratings — published -400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,328 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,625 ratings — published -480
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,183,207 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,888 ratings — published -350
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,621 ratings — published -400
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 179,785 ratings — published 2017
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 78,559 ratings — published 400
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,601 ratings — published -405
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,855 ratings — published -475
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,983 ratings — published -55
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,319 ratings — published -370
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,475,811 ratings — published 2018
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,372 ratings — published 2014
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,463 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,025 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,949 ratings — published 2003
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,868 ratings — published -250
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,260 ratings — published -401
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,035 ratings — published 60
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,502 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,779 ratings — published -550
Medea and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,750 ratings — published -428
“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.”
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“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?”
― The Satyricon
― The Satyricon
