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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,302,638 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.94 — 543,258 ratings — published -750
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,219,408 ratings — published 2011
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,508,919 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,277 ratings — published 2015
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,600 ratings — published -1800
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 150,145 ratings — published -19
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,599 ratings — published -430
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,810 ratings — published -411
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 186,055 ratings — published -441
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,607 ratings — published 8
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,666 ratings — published -400
The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 123,412 ratings — published 2018
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.73 — 245,437 ratings — published -429
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,780 ratings — published 121
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.24 — 76,024 ratings — published 1934
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.27 — 388,848 ratings — published 180
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,989 ratings — published -431
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,215 ratings — published 2010
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,662 ratings — published -450
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,036 ratings — published -458
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 55,257 ratings — published -423
The Penelopiad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.70 — 101,676 ratings — published 2005
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.14 — 25,105 ratings — published 1990
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 646,839 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 101,628 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 — 183,082 ratings — published 2017
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,730 ratings — published 2003
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,906 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 — 39,050 ratings — published 1951
Gates of Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.40 — 46,536 ratings — published 1998
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,320 ratings — published 2010
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,838 ratings — published 1969
Ariadne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 157,735 ratings — published 2021
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,759 ratings — published 2014
The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,181 ratings — published 2021
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,822 ratings — published -380
Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,445 ratings — published 2010
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,180 ratings — published -350
Galatea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,919 ratings — published 2013
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 — 6,949 ratings — published 2007
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,124 ratings — published -50
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,022 ratings — published 1956
Helen of Troy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,457 ratings — published 2006
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,409 ratings — published -370
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,026 ratings — published 1958
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.28 — 189,650 ratings — published -350
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 67,435 ratings — published 2018
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,201 ratings — published -350
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-world)
avg rating 4.19 — 72,237 ratings — published -399
“Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“So, she had the right to love and cherish as well as take part in battles if that became necessary.”
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
― Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
