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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,232,528 ratings — published -700
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 525,459 ratings — published -750
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,107,978 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,417,346 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 85,535 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,126 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,848 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,782 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,265 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,651 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,937 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,609 ratings — published -400
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,331 ratings — published 121
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,774 ratings — published -429
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 370,675 ratings — published 180
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 117,782 ratings — published 2018
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,634 ratings — published 1934
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,801 ratings — published -431
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,818 ratings — published 2010
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,770 ratings — published -450
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,979 ratings — published -458
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.71 — 92,284 ratings — published 2005
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,458 ratings — published -423
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,023 ratings — published 2003
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 639,069 ratings — published 1997
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,441 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 95,730 ratings — published 2019
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 172,309 ratings — published 2017
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,504 ratings — published 1951
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,321 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,952 ratings — published 2010
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,773 ratings — published 1990
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,412 ratings — published 2010
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 152,459 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,836 ratings — published 2013
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,646 ratings — published 2014
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,659 ratings — published -380
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,476 ratings — published -350
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 — 6,788 ratings — published 2007
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,554 ratings — published 1969
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,884 ratings — published 2021
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,876 ratings — published -50
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,721 ratings — published 1956
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,238 ratings — published 2006
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,171 ratings — published -400
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,586 ratings — published -350
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,363 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,184 ratings — published 2009
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,643 ratings — published 1958
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.50 — 353,157 ratings — published 1000
“Classics is a subject that exists in that gap between us and the word of the Greeks and Romans. The questions raised by Classics are the questions raised by our distance from 'their' world, and at the same time by our closeness to it, and its familiarity to us. In our museums, in our literature, languages, culture, and ways of thinking. The aim of Classics is not only to discover or uncover the ancient world (though that is part of it, as the rediscovery of Bassae, or the excavation of the furthest outposts of the Roman empire on the Scottish borders, shows). Its aim is to also define and debate our relationship to that world.”
― Classics: A Very Short Introduction
― Classics: A Very Short Introduction
“In order to command, a man must firstly know how to and be able to fulfill orders when he is commanded!”
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
