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Ancient Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,189,843 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 440 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,560 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,816 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 292 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,207 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 225,647 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,186 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 344,617 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,559 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 237,022 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,720 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 171 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 176,308 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,777 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,551 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 569,778 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,137 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,095 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,630 ratings — published -560
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 53,360 ratings — published -423
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 182,104 ratings — published -350
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,462 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,258 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,773 ratings — published 121
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,716 ratings — published -450
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,977 ratings — published 1000
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,192 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,765 ratings — published -399
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 81,482 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 56,252 ratings — published 64
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,974,859 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,418 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 73,971 ratings — published 400
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,814 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,529 ratings — published -480
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,934 ratings — published -400
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 161,758 ratings — published 2017
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,995 ratings — published -475
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,319 ratings — published -405
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,883 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,562 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,043 ratings — published 1934
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,519 ratings — published -50
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,342,219 ratings — published 2018
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,238 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,681 ratings — published 60
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,376 ratings — published -250
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,740 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,645 ratings — published -550
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,429 ratings — published -401
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,306 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,721 ratings — published 2014
“Serpent heart of ancient terrors.”
― The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
― The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
“Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination”
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