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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,285,591 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,134 ratings — published -750
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 200 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,910 ratings — published -19
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,001 ratings — published 8
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.27 — 382,329 ratings — published 180
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,290 ratings — published -430
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.97 — 233,078 ratings — published -400
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 118 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,001 ratings — published -441
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,221 ratings — published -1800
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,700 ratings — published 2015
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,552 ratings — published -458
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.73 — 243,827 ratings — published -429
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,579 ratings — published -380
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.95 — 41,578 ratings — published -411
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,017 ratings — published -431
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,181,106 ratings — published 2011
The Twelve Caesars (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,585 ratings — published 121
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,473,864 ratings — published 2018
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,853 ratings — published -423
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,287 ratings — published -450
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,355 ratings — published -350
The Conquest of Gaul (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,021 ratings — published -50
The Persian Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,317 ratings — published -370
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,977 ratings — published -55
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,932 ratings — published -335
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.32 — 61,399 ratings — published 64
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.01 — 78,497 ratings — published 400
The Golden Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,965 ratings — published 159
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,590 ratings — published -405
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,425 ratings — published 1934
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,873 ratings — published -350
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 22,613 ratings — published -480
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,066 ratings — published -560
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.94 — 597,873 ratings — published -500
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,917 ratings — published 2003
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,314 ratings — published -700
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,079 ratings — published -29
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.29 — 188,099 ratings — published -350
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,762 ratings — published -550
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,305 ratings — published -399
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 45 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.13 — 47,595 ratings — published -400
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,856 ratings — published -60
The Satyricon (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.77 — 10,033 ratings — published 60
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,254 ratings — published -401
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 42 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,861 ratings — published -250
The Annals of Imperial Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,503 ratings — published 116
Memoirs of Hadrian (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,467 ratings — published 1951
Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.25 — 179,567 ratings — published 2017
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as antiquity)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,752 ratings — published -410
The Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as antiquity)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,377 ratings — published -47
“There is a place at the centre of the World, between the zones of earth, sea, and sky, at the boundary of the three worlds. From here, whatever exists is seen, however far away, and every voice reaches listening ears. Rumour lives there, choosing a house for herself on a high mountain summit, adding innumerable entrances, a thousand openings, and no doors to bar the threshold. It is open night and day: and is all of sounding bronze. All rustles with noise, echoes voices, and repeats what is heard. There is no peace within: no silence anywhere. Yet there is no clamour, only the subdued murmur of voices, like the waves of the sea, if you hear them far off, or like the sound of distant thunder when Jupiter makes the dark clouds rumble.
Crowds fill the hallways: a fickle populace comes and goes, and, mingling truth randomly with fiction, a thousand rumours wander, and confused words circulate. Of these, some fill idle ears with chatter, others carry tales, and the author adds something new to what is heard. Here is Credulity: here is rash Error, empty Delight, and alarming Fear, sudden Sedition, and Murmurings of doubtful origin. Rumour herself sees everything that happens in the heavens, throughout the ocean, and on land, and inquires about everything on earth.”
― Metamorfosis VII - XV
Crowds fill the hallways: a fickle populace comes and goes, and, mingling truth randomly with fiction, a thousand rumours wander, and confused words circulate. Of these, some fill idle ears with chatter, others carry tales, and the author adds something new to what is heard. Here is Credulity: here is rash Error, empty Delight, and alarming Fear, sudden Sedition, and Murmurings of doubtful origin. Rumour herself sees everything that happens in the heavens, throughout the ocean, and on land, and inquires about everything on earth.”
― Metamorfosis VII - XV
“Even at its most spontaneous, [the Carmina] has not the sudden miracle of the earliest vernacular ... It is the contrast between the thrushes in February and the violin.”
― The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
― The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
