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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 467 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,177,111 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 437 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.93 — 504,003 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 117,010 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 295 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,070 ratings — published -19
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 223,794 ratings — published -400
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.10 — 77,567 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.28 — 335,911 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,204 ratings — published -430
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 187 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.73 — 235,480 ratings — published -429
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,412 ratings — published -458
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.68 — 174,417 ratings — published -441
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.09 — 88,443 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,323 ratings — published -411
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 562,680 ratings — published -500
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,225 ratings — published -431
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,075 ratings — published -350
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,226 ratings — published -560
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.29 — 180,538 ratings — published -350
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.87 — 52,999 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,378 ratings — published -450
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,150 ratings — published -335
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,772 ratings — published 2015
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,506 ratings — published 121
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,030 ratings — published 159
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,715 ratings — published -399
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.50 — 343,376 ratings — published 1000
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.33 — 54,930 ratings — published 64
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,751 ratings — published -400
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,935,837 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,491 ratings — published -350
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,254 ratings — published -700
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 73,057 ratings — published 400
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,286 ratings — published -480
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,570 ratings — published -400
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,841 ratings — published -475
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.26 — 158,856 ratings — published 2017
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,768 ratings — published -400
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,404 ratings — published -55
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,055 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.24 — 72,627 ratings — published 1934
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,321,200 ratings — published 2018
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,415 ratings — published -50
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,237 ratings — published -250
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,375 ratings — published -550
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,597 ratings — published 60
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,664 ratings — published 2003
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,308 ratings — published -401
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,574 ratings — published 2005
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,266 ratings — published 116
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,466 ratings — published 2014
“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
“....though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. He explained to them that history was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside.
"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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"To understand history," Chacko said, "we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."...
..."But we can't go in," Chacko explained, "because we've been locked out. And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
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