Truly old classics

Description
Works written (or otherwise created) no later than the 14th century.
1
The Iliad
by Homer
47,290 members
445 reviews
4
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, Chassegnouf
2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,125 members
362 reviews
3.8
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
24,976 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Republic of Plato
by Plato
25,517 members
162 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Odyssey
by Homer
62,132 members
521 reviews
4
2 Members
fuzzi, Chassegnouf
6
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,559 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
The Clouds
by Aristophanes
902 members
16 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963
8
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,919 members
69 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
9
The Symposium
by Plato
7,548 members
83 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Aristotle's Politics
by Aristotle
6,748 members
48 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
11
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,527 members
229 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
The Last Days of Socrates
by Plato
6,069 members
27 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
13
Cicero, XVa, Orations: Philippics 1-6 (Loeb Classical Library)
by Cicero
54 members
½ 4.5
Member
Bretzky1
14
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
8,286 members
58 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Troilus and Cressida
by Geoffrey Chaucer
2,106 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
16
On A Life Well Spent
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
557 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
17
Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
7,059 members
51 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,418 members
132 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
19
The Birds [in translation]
by Aristophanes
661 members
13 reviews
3.2
Member
ahef1963
20
Oedipus at Colonus (translation)
by Sophocles
662 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
21
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,613 members
228 reviews
3.9
22
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,252 members
112 reviews
4.1
23
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
by Aeschylus
11,676 members
87 reviews
4
24
Poetics
by Aristotle
5,866 members
58 reviews
3.8
25
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyám
3,545 members
40 reviews
4
26
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
3,216 members
47 reviews
3.8
27
Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
3,152 members
25 reviews
4.1
28
Gorgias
by Plato
2,852 members
16 reviews
3.8
29
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,754 members
24 reviews
3.9
30
On the Shortness of Life [and other works]
by Seneca
2,704 members
50 reviews
4.1
31
Metaphysics
by Aristotle
2,579 members
25 reviews
4
32
Phaedrus
by Plato
2,167 members
11 reviews
3.8
33
Ars amatoria [Art of Love | in translation]
by Ovid
1,843 members
37 reviews
3.8
34
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
1,624 members
28 reviews
3.9
35
The Conference of the Birds
by Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,602 members
16 reviews
4
36
The Gift
by Hāfez
1,039 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
37
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
966 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
38
The Trojan Women
by Euripides
777 members
16 reviews
3.8
39
Poems
by Virgil
770 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
40
Heroides [in translation]
by Ovid
657 members
5 reviews
3.9
41
The Persians
by Aeschylus
581 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
42
Fasti [translations]
by Ovid
515 members
3 reviews
3.8
43
Hippolytus
by Euripides
502 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Britannica Great Books: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
by Encyclopedia Britannica
466 members
2 reviews
3.8
45
Ajax [in translation]
by Sophocles
447 members
26 reviews
3.8
46
The Seven Against Thebes
by Aeschylus
408 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
47
Iphigenia in Tauris
by Euripides
407 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
48
I Heard God Laughing
by Hāfez
393 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
49
Electra
by Euripides
375 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
367 members
4.1
51
Bacchae [Greek text]
by Euripides
365 members
3 reviews
3.8
52
The Story of Layla and Majnun
by Nizami Ganjavi
323 members
1 review
3.9
53
The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi
by Sadi
316 members
5 reviews
3.9
54
Women of Trachis [in translation]
by Sophocles
269 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
55
The Satires
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
243 members
4 reviews
4.2
56
Choephoroe
by Aeschylus
237 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
57
The Masnavi
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
220 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
58
Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sophocles
151 members
½ 3.5
59
The Bustan
by Sadi
113 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
60
Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi
by Jalal al-Din Rumi
103 members
4 reviews
4.2
61
Medea [Latin text]
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
76 members
½ 3.6
62
Memorial of the Saints
by Farid al-Din Attar
52 members
2 reviews
63
Rhetoric
by Aristotle
2,925 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7