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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,265,501 ratings — published -750
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 532,442 ratings — published -750
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,150,554 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,446,879 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,769 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,400 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,972 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,072 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,428 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,987 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,612 ratings — published 8
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,460 ratings — published 121
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 120,015 ratings — published 2018
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 231,994 ratings — published -400
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,968 ratings — published -429
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,087 ratings — published 1934
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 377,294 ratings — published 180
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,496 ratings — published -431
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,316 ratings — published 2010
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,089 ratings — published -450
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.71 — 95,770 ratings — published 2005
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,313 ratings — published -458
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,539 ratings — published 2003
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,689 ratings — published -423
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 97,986 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 — 176,348 ratings — published 2017
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,873 ratings — published 1990
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 641,766 ratings — published 1997
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,344 ratings — published 2003
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,055 ratings — published 1951
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 45,753 ratings — published 1998
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,999 ratings — published 2014
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,651 ratings — published 1969
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,085 ratings — published 2010
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 52,296 ratings — published 2021
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,578 ratings — published 2021
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,768 ratings — published -380
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,838 ratings — published 2010
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,303 ratings — published 2013
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,998 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 — 6,837 ratings — published 2007
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,954 ratings — published -50
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,831 ratings — published 1956
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,313 ratings — published 2006
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,799 ratings — published 1958
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,246 ratings — published -370
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,741 ratings — published -350
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.20 — 21,781 ratings — published 1997
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,533 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,292 ratings — published 2009
“Truth-telling is a delicate dance between exposure and imposture, a dance whose steps I’m beginning to learn. When Theodora found me in the scriptorium, I was twenty-one. Still young, but I’d seen enough to feel old.”
― The Eagle and the Swan
― The Eagle and the Swan
“We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand the ancient world?”
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
