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Metamorphoses
Ovid
4.10 average rating, · 80k ratings
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
Homer
4.07 average rating, · 85.6k ratings
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The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
4.02 average rating, · 82.8k ratings
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Sophocles
4.00 average rating, · 71.8k ratings
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Aeschylus
4.02 average rating, · 48k ratings
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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
Thomas Malory
4.02 average rating, · 26.2k ratings
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Medea and Other Plays
Euripides
4.03 average rating, · 19.6k ratings
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Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch
4.14 average rating, · 12.3k ratings
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The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges
4.04 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Aeschylus
4.00 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
4.51 average rating, · 5.8k ratings
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The Saga of the Volsungs
Anonymous
4.00 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs
Aristophanes
4.06 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
Sophocles
4.25 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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The Sagas of Icelanders
Jane Smiley
4.31 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
David Grene
4.23 average rating, · 4.3k ratings
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1
Anonymous
4.00 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae
Euripides
4.18 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en
4.06 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Roberto Calasso
4.24 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
4.34 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Egil's Saga
Anonymous
4.00 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Ted Hughes
4.26 average rating, · 3k ratings
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The Odyssey of Homer
Elizabeth Vandiver
4.45 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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