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Ancient Literature Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,330 ratings — published -800
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,957 ratings — published -2000
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,459 ratings — published -800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 122 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,373 ratings — published -19
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,692 ratings — published -429
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,766 ratings — published 8
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 178,282 ratings — published -441
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 354,899 ratings — published 180
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,192 ratings — published -458
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,931 ratings — published -430
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,084 ratings — published -431
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,450 ratings — published 1000
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,793 ratings — published -423
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,325 ratings — published -400
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,069 ratings — published -450
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,119 ratings — published -380
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 129,943 ratings — published -560
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,280 ratings — published -500
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 40,777 ratings — published -411
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,634 ratings — published -405
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,816 ratings — published -480
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,628 ratings — published -700
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,807 ratings — published -335
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,645 ratings — published -55
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,629 ratings — published -60
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,341 ratings — published 159
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,611 ratings — published -401
The Trojan Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,884 ratings — published -415
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,955 ratings — published 121
Daphnis and Chloe (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,852 ratings — published 150
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,572 ratings — published -350
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,749 ratings — published 60
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,483 ratings — published -250
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,502 ratings — published -420
Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.84 — 22,823 ratings — published -472
Homeric Hymns (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,641 ratings — published -699
Clouds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.61 — 11,892 ratings — published -423
The Frogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,403 ratings — published -405
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,751 ratings — published -399
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,991 ratings — published -400
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.32 — 57,366 ratings — published 64
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,953 ratings — published -350
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,916 ratings — published -550
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,189 ratings — published -475
The Persians (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,953 ratings — published -472
Medea and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 19,408 ratings — published -428
Heroides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,843 ratings — published -16
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,362 ratings — published -410
The Iliad / The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,297 ratings — published -800
The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-literature)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,016 ratings — published -467
“The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy. Because each new generation of children is taught that religious propositions need not be justified in the way that all others must, civilization is still being besieged by the armies of the preposterous. We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?”
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
― The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“...the Sibyl,
Resisting possession, storms through the cavern,
In the throes of her struggle with Phoebus
Apollo. But the more she froths at the mouth
And contorts, the more he controls her, commands her
And makes her his creature. Then of their own accord
Those hundred vast tunnel-mouths gape and give vent
To the prophetess's responses...”
― Aeneid Book VI
Resisting possession, storms through the cavern,
In the throes of her struggle with Phoebus
Apollo. But the more she froths at the mouth
And contorts, the more he controls her, commands her
And makes her his creature. Then of their own accord
Those hundred vast tunnel-mouths gape and give vent
To the prophetess's responses...”
― Aeneid Book VI
