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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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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Anne Carson
4.25 average rating, · 38k ratings
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
4.42 average rating, · 22.5k ratings
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Aeschylus
4.02 average rating, · 48k ratings
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The Lady of Shalott
Alfred Tennyson
4.19 average rating, · 20k ratings
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The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
Snorri Sturluson
4.15 average rating, · 16.2k ratings
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Mahabharata
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
4.32 average rating, · 12.3k ratings
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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
Unknown
4.26 average rating, · 12.8k ratings
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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R.K. Narayan
4.08 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
Nikita Gill
4.06 average rating, · 12.5k ratings
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The World's Wife
Carol Ann Duffy
4.10 average rating, · 11.2k ratings
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Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson
4.45 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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Great Goddesses - Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
Nikita Gill
4.15 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Aeschylus
4.00 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Averno
Louise Glück
4.18 average rating, · 7.5k ratings
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Sappho
Sappho
4.21 average rating, · 7.3k 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 Bacchae and Other Plays
Euripides
4.14 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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The Saga of the Volsungs
Anonymous
4.00 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Homeric Hymns
Homer
4.05 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
Sophocles
4.25 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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The Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot
4.04 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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Come Close
Sappho
4.04 average rating, · 6k ratings
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