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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,289,962 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,521 ratings — published -750
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,189,965 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,482,125 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,058 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,595 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,204 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,371 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,623 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,420 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,131 ratings — published 8
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 122,134 ratings — published 2018
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,537 ratings — published -400
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 244,170 ratings — published -429
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,625 ratings — published 121
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,550 ratings — published 1934
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 383,917 ratings — published 180
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,201 ratings — published -431
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,830 ratings — published 2010
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,365 ratings — published -450
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,664 ratings — published -458
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.71 — 99,458 ratings — published 2005
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 644,372 ratings — published 1997
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,082 ratings — published 2003
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,942 ratings — published -423
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 100,373 ratings — published 2019
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 180,438 ratings — published 2017
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,995 ratings — published 1990
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,097 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of Hadrian: And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,589 ratings — published 1951
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 46,186 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,210 ratings — published 2010
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,749 ratings — published 1969
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,446 ratings — published 2014
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,447 ratings — published 2021
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,549 ratings — published 2021
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,842 ratings — published -380
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,158 ratings — published 2010
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 134,575 ratings — published 2013
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,503 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 4.12 — 6,893 ratings — published 2007
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,047 ratings — published -50
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,909 ratings — published 1956
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,381 ratings — published 2006
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,334 ratings — published -370
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,912 ratings — published 1958
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.31 — 66,379 ratings — published 2018
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,941 ratings — published -350
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,848 ratings — published 1997
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,644 ratings — published 2011
“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
“She is rapidly gaining appreciation from other Cherusci women as their leader, and her ability as a warrior is so great that even the male warriors envy her!”
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
