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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,230,366 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 524,774 ratings — published -750
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,019 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 303 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,695 ratings — published -19
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 369,872 ratings — published 180
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,458 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,875 ratings — published 8
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,749 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,639 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,951 ratings — published -458
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,505 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,500 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,247 ratings — published -411
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,414 ratings — published -350
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,733 ratings — published -431
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 588,141 ratings — published -500
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,619 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 186,226 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,435 ratings — published -423
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,382 ratings — published 2015
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,734 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,454 ratings — published -335
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,937 ratings — published 1000
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,309 ratings — published 121
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,761 ratings — published -399
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,698 ratings — published 159
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.32 — 59,535 ratings — published 64
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,569 ratings — published -400
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,103,448 ratings — published 2011
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,936 ratings — published -700
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,273 ratings — published -480
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 76,886 ratings — published 400
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,977 ratings — published -400
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.25 — 171,767 ratings — published 2017
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,562 ratings — published -350
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,184 ratings — published -405
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,562 ratings — published -475
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,161 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,813 ratings — published -55
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,583 ratings — published 1934
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,414,841 ratings — published 2018
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,695 ratings — published -250
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,867 ratings — published -50
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,946 ratings — published 2003
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,917 ratings — published 60
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,620 ratings — published 2014
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,975 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,203 ratings — published 2005
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,393 ratings — published -550
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,657 ratings — published 1776
“For some, the path to enlightenment leads to a revelation; for others, it ends with a slide into insanity.”
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
― The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran
“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face
my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face
my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face
my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face
my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face
my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face
my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
