Truly old classics

Description
Works written (or otherwise created) no later than the 14th century.
1
The Iliad
by Homer
47,538 members
447 reviews
4
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, Chassegnouf
2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,225 members
362 reviews
3.8
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
25,060 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Republic of Plato
by Plato
25,562 members
163 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Odyssey
by Homer
62,515 members
521 reviews
4
2 Members
fuzzi, Chassegnouf
6
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,599 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
The Clouds
by Aristophanes
905 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963
8
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,949 members
69 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
9
The Symposium
by Plato
7,580 members
84 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Aristotle's Politics
by Aristotle
6,778 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
11
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,644 members
230 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
The Last Days of Socrates
by Plato
6,085 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
8,318 members
59 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Troilus and Cressida
by Geoffrey Chaucer
2,114 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
16
On A Life Well Spent
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
562 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
17
Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
7,085 members
51 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,435 members
135 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
19
The Birds [in translation]
by Aristophanes
662 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
26,764 members
229 reviews
3.9
22
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,345 members
113 reviews
4.1
23
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
by Aeschylus
11,741 members
87 reviews
4
24
Poetics
by Aristotle
5,895 members
59 reviews
3.8
25
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyám
3,558 members
40 reviews
4
26
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
3,220 members
48 reviews
3.8
27
Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
3,163 members
25 reviews
4.1
28
Gorgias
by Plato
2,848 members
16 reviews
3.8
29
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,761 members
24 reviews
3.9
30
On the Shortness of Life [and other works]
by Seneca
2,722 members
50 reviews
4.1
31
Metaphysics
by Aristotle
2,597 members
25 reviews
4
32
Phaedrus
by Plato
2,175 members
11 reviews
3.8
33
Ars amatoria [Art of Love | in translation]
by Ovid
1,848 members
37 reviews
3.8
34
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
1,636 members
28 reviews
3.9
35
The Conference of the Birds
by Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,610 members
16 reviews
4
36
The Gift
by Hāfez
1,040 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
37
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
969 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
38
The Trojan Women
by Euripides
782 members
16 reviews
3.8
39
Poems
by Virgil
770 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
40
Heroides [in translation]
by Ovid
663 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
504 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Britannica Great Books: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
by Encyclopedia Britannica
468 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
396 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
367 members
3 reviews
3.8
52
The Story of Layla and Majnun
by Nizami Ganjavi
326 members
1 review
3.9
53
The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi
by Sadi
315 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
242 members
4 reviews
4.2
56
Choephoroe
by Aeschylus
237 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
57
The Masnavi
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
219 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
58
Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sophocles
151 members
½ 3.5
59
The Bustan
by Sadi
112 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
51 members
3 reviews
63
Rhetoric
by Aristotle
2,919 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7