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The Histories
Herodotus
4.01 average rating, · 56.8k ratings
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Fragments
Heraclitus
4.18 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey
4.06 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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Theaetetus
Plato
4.11 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch
4.10 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Our Oriental Heritage
Will Durant
4.30 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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The Jewish War
Flavius Josephus
4.00 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.02 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Plutarch
4.19 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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A History of My Times
Xenophon
4.03 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Sophist
Plato
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Parmenides
Plato
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Odes and Epodes
Horatius
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The Life of Greece
Will Durant
4.37 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
Robert Garland
4.29 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Caesar and Christ
Will Durant
4.41 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Dialogues of Plato
Plato
4.13 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Makers of Rome
Plutarch
4.19 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch
4.17 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Anthony Gottlieb
4.07 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
Frederick Charles Copleston
4.12 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Arthur Herman
4.18 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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On Sparta
Plutarch
4.12 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
James Romm
4.14 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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