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The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,807 ratings — published -750
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,290,878 ratings — published -800
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,191,831 ratings — published 2011
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,915 ratings — published 1958
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,483,963 ratings — published 2018
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.40 — 46,202 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,595 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,873 ratings — published 2010
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,535 ratings — published 2010
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 122,209 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,139 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,670 ratings — published -1800
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,134 ratings — published 2003
Ancient Egypt (DK Eyewitness Books)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.12 — 849 ratings — published 1990
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,821 ratings — published 2004
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,787 ratings — published 1972
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,686 ratings — published -480
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,325 ratings — published 2024
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 — 2,077 ratings — published 2018
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,673 ratings — published 950
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,615 ratings — published 2021
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.65 — 61,142 ratings — published 2022
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,214 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 — 964 ratings — published 1997
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.45 — 7,039 ratings — published 300
People of the Lakes (North America's Forgotten Past, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,104 ratings — published 1992
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.11 — 288,357 ratings — published 1980
Last of the Amazons (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,351 ratings — published 2002
Imperium (Cicero, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,012 ratings — published 2006
Gods from Outer Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.26 — 942 ratings — published 1969
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
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.25 — 180,635 ratings — published 2017
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,089 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 — 15,965 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 3.80 — 47,600 ratings — published 1995
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,640 ratings — published -411
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 4.29 — 188,507 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 — 262 ratings — published 2000
A History of Pagan Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.73 — 699 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 3.61 — 287 ratings — published 2012
The Beast Within: A History of the Werewolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.84 — 99 ratings — published 1992
The Popol Vuh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,005 ratings — published 1550
Egyptian Myths (The Legendary Past)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.40 — 253 ratings — published 1990
Roman Myths (The Legendary Past)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.19 — 113 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 3.57 — 201 ratings — published 2006
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-cultures)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,960 ratings — published -423
“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
