34 books
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Ancient World Books
Showing 1-50 of 6,831
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,218,295 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,776 ratings — published -800
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,075,068 ratings — published 2011
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 84,371 ratings — published 2015
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,398,619 ratings — published 2018
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,278 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 145,835 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,442 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,074 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 180,365 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,489 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 229,334 ratings — published -400
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,178 ratings — published 121
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 240,604 ratings — published -429
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 116,194 ratings — published 2018
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 364,346 ratings — published 180
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 74,108 ratings — published 1934
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,145 ratings — published -431
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,321 ratings — published 2010
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,472 ratings — published -450
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,660 ratings — published -458
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,195 ratings — published -423
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.71 — 91,075 ratings — published 2005
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 637,101 ratings — published 1997
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,790 ratings — published 2003
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,503 ratings — published 2003
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.25 — 169,573 ratings — published 2017
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,034 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,354 ratings — published 2019
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 44,861 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,848 ratings — published 2010
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,653 ratings — published 1990
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,975 ratings — published 2010
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 150,900 ratings — published 2021
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 128,066 ratings — published 2013
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,367 ratings — published 2014
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,604 ratings — published -380
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,947 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 — 6,749 ratings — published 2007
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,473 ratings — published 1969
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,497 ratings — published 2021
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,780 ratings — published -50
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,637 ratings — published 1956
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.50 — 351,303 ratings — published 1000
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,101 ratings — published -400
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,444 ratings — published -350
Daughters of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 13,193 ratings — published 2011
Cleopatra's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.12 — 31,090 ratings — published 2009
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,183 ratings — published 2006
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,537 ratings — published 1958
“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”
― We the Great Are Misthought
― We the Great Are Misthought
“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












