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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 452 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,169,441 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 500,680 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 115,689 ratings — published -1200
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 291 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,209 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,374 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,110 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 330,474 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,977 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.72 — 234,057 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,077 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 172 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 172,660 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,506 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,163 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 558,309 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 85,462 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,401 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,017 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,359 ratings — published -350
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 70,138 ratings — published -450
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,748 ratings — published -423
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,903 ratings — published -335
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,394 ratings — published 121
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,807 ratings — published 2015
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 341,227 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,907 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,973 ratings — published -399
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,133 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,911,539 ratings — published 2011
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,253 ratings — published -400
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,279 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,087 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 72,480 ratings — published 400
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,100 ratings — published -700
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,707 ratings — published -475
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,197 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,341 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,716 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,290 ratings — published 1934
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,700 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 156,576 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,306,631 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,345 ratings — published -50
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,175 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,163 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,185 ratings — published -401
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,234 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,540 ratings — published 60
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,232 ratings — published 116
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,457 ratings — published 2005
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,292 ratings — published 2014
“...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.”
― Children of the Mind
― Children of the Mind
“Gilgamesh, where are you roaming? You will never find the eternal life that you seek. When the gods created mankind, they also created death, and they held back eternal life for themselves alone. Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savour your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.”
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
― The Epic of Gilgamesh
