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Ancient Greece Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,237,873 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 434 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.94 — 526,966 ratings — published -750
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,117,680 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,422,791 ratings — published 2018
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,306 ratings — published -411
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,867 ratings — published -430
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,976 ratings — published -400
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,056 ratings — published -458
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,109 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,009 ratings — published -441
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,970 ratings — published -431
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,923 ratings — published -380
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.25 — 173,054 ratings — published 2017
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,841 ratings — published -450
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.89 — 118,213 ratings — published 2018
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,530 ratings — published -423
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,990 ratings — published -700
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,625 ratings — published -350
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.19 — 70,043 ratings — published -399
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,559 ratings — published -335
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.04 — 96,105 ratings — published 2019
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,189 ratings — published -370
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.71 — 92,682 ratings — published 2005
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,868 ratings — published 2021
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.31 — 63,771 ratings — published 2018
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,258 ratings — published -405
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,474 ratings — published -550
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,628 ratings — published -350
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,459 ratings — published 1998
The Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,399 ratings — published 2003
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,691 ratings — published 1958
Troy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.34 — 46,718 ratings — published 2020
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,331 ratings — published -480
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,608 ratings — published 1992
Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,933 ratings — published 1942
The Greek Myths: Complete Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,813 ratings — published 1955
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,038 ratings — published -401
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,723 ratings — published -250
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,083 ratings — published -400
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.05 — 130,733 ratings — published -560
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,741 ratings — published 1956
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,578 ratings — published 1969
The Campaigns of Alexander (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,480 ratings — published 150
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,975 ratings — published 2020
Homeric Hymns (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,789 ratings — published -699
Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,089 ratings — published -380
Medea and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,644 ratings — published -428
Elektra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.66 — 59,035 ratings — published 2022
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,310 ratings — published 2013
A History of My Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-greece)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,441 ratings — published -356
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of people in its political life (p. 11)”
― On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
― On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
“TEIRESIAS:
Alas, how terrible is wisdom when
it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
Alas, how terrible is wisdom when
it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
