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The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,933 ratings — published -750
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,267,678 ratings — published -750
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,807 ratings — published 1958
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,781 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,930 ratings — published 2005
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,153,725 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,355 ratings — published 2010
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,449,596 ratings — published 2018
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,488 ratings — published 2010
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 120,202 ratings — published 2018
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,466 ratings — published -1800
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,401 ratings — published 2003
Ancient Egypt (DK Eyewitness Books)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 845 ratings — published 1990
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,563 ratings — published 2004
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,673 ratings — published 1972
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,053 ratings — published 2018
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.50 — 355,285 ratings — published 1000
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,740 ratings — published 2021
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.65 — 60,008 ratings — published 2022
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.93 — 64,757 ratings — published 2017
The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.81 — 961 ratings — published 1997
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.45 — 7,022 ratings — published 300
People of the Lakes (North America's Forgotten Past, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,101 ratings — published 1992
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.11 — 287,414 ratings — published 1980
Last of the Amazons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,338 ratings — published 2002
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,297 ratings — published 2006
Gods from Outer Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.26 — 940 ratings — published 1969
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,842 ratings — published 2015
The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.41 — 672 ratings — published 1984
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,048 ratings — published 2015
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,877 ratings — published 1995
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,465 ratings — published 1995
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,443 ratings — published -411
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 187,420 ratings — published -350
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece!: A Life You'd Rather Not Have (You Wouldn't Want To)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 261 ratings — published 2000
A History of Pagan Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.73 — 698 ratings — published 1995
A History of Irish Fairies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.53 — 96 ratings — published 1985
The Book of Goddesses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 385 ratings — published 1996
India: Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.68 — 66 ratings — published 1913
A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.62 — 286 ratings — published 2012
The Beast Within: A History of the Werewolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.84 — 98 ratings — published 1992
The Popol Vuh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,959 ratings — published 1550
Egyptian Myths (The Legendary Past)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.39 — 246 ratings — published 1990
Roman Myths (The Legendary Past)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.19 — 114 ratings — published 1993
A History Of Cannibalism: From Ancient Cultures To Survival Stories And Modern Psychopaths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.58 — 200 ratings — published 2006
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,709 ratings — published -423
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,424 ratings — published -405
Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,404 ratings — published -440
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,091 ratings — published -430
“What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113”
― The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
― The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
