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Ancient World Books
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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,198,021 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,764 ratings — published -800
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,006,131 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,359,295 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,107 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,567 ratings — published -2000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,927 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,778 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,689 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.68 — 177,614 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,547 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,780 ratings — published -400
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,107 ratings — published -429
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,898 ratings — published 121
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 352,312 ratings — published 180
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 73,341 ratings — published 1934
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 113,106 ratings — published 2018
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 123,413 ratings — published 2010
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,733 ratings — published -431
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,936 ratings — published -450
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 53,624 ratings — published -423
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,042 ratings — published -458
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 632,995 ratings — published 1997
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,870 ratings — published 2003
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.26 — 164,037 ratings — published 2017
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.71 — 87,998 ratings — published 2005
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 36,211 ratings — published 1951
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,601 ratings — published 2003
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 44,025 ratings — published 1998
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,442 ratings — published 1990
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 91,122 ratings — published 2019
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,659 ratings — published 2010
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 31,139 ratings — published 2010
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,881 ratings — published 2014
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 147,383 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 124,546 ratings — published 2013
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,691 ratings — published -380
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,649 ratings — published 2007
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,339 ratings — published 1969
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,657 ratings — published -350
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,952 ratings — published -400
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,607 ratings — published -50
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,644 ratings — published 1000
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,530 ratings — published 1956
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,962 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,892 ratings — published 2009
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,127 ratings — published 2006
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,409 ratings — published 1958
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,077 ratings — published -350
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,002 ratings — published -350
“Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.”
― The History of Hell
― The History of Hell
“Wolf man, I have warned you. I will turn those things you call Maenads on you. Perhaps getting your limbs ripped off will bring you to your senses.”
― The Wolf Queen
― The Wolf Queen
