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Apology
Plato
4.19 average rating, · 70k ratings
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The Symposium
Plato
4.09 average rating, · 93.8k ratings
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The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
4.00 average rating, · 62.6k ratings
- Classics
- History
- Philosophy
- Politics
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The Histories
Herodotus
4.01 average rating, · 56.8k ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
4.03 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
- Biography
- Classics
- History
- Roman History
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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
4.39 average rating, · 12.8k ratings
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Metaphysics
Aristotle
4.07 average rating, · 18.5k ratings
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Plato: Complete Works
Plato
4.38 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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Phaedo
Plato
4.07 average rating, · 17.1k ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland
4.16 average rating, · 12.2k ratings
- Greece
- History
- Middle East
- Ancient
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The Complete Poems
Catullus
4.10 average rating, · 11.8k ratings
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The Persian Expedition
Xenophon
4.11 average rating, · 10.2k ratings
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Fragments
Heraclitus
4.18 average rating, · 8.2k ratings
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The Civil War
Gaius Julius Caesar
4.07 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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The Forgotten Legion
Ben Kane
4.07 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
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Theaetetus
Plato
4.11 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Homeric Hymns
Homer
4.05 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
- Classics
- Poetry
- Religion
- Ancient
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De Anima
Aristotle
4.03 average rating, · 6.9k ratings
- Classics
- History
- Philosophy
- Science
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The Discourses
Epictetus
4.27 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
- Classics
- History
- Philosophy
- Self-Help
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch
4.10 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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The Campaigns of Alexander
Arrian
4.17 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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The Punic Wars
Adrian Goldsworthy
4.20 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
- History
- Military History
- Roman History
- Ancient
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Child of the Morning
Pauline Gedge
4.14 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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