Truly old classics

Description
Works written (or otherwise created) no later than the 14th century.
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The Iliad
by Homer
47,796 members
449 reviews
4
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, Chassegnouf
2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,413 members
363 reviews
3.8
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
25,086 members
185 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
fuzzi, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Republic of Plato
by Platon
25,661 members
165 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Bretzky1, fuzzi, ManWithAnAgenda
5
The Odyssey
by Homer
62,968 members
530 reviews
4
2 Members
fuzzi, Chassegnouf
6
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,630 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
The Clouds
by Aristophanes
909 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, ahef1963
8
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,992 members
70 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
9
The Symposium
by Plato
7,613 members
85 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
10
Aristotle's Politics
by Aristotle
6,839 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
11
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,773 members
231 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
The Last Days of Socrates
by Platon
6,097 members
27 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
13
Cicero, XVa, Orations: Philippics 1-6 (Loeb Classical Library)
by Cicero
55 members
½ 4.5
Member
Bretzky1
14
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri
8,329 members
60 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
Troilus and Cressida
by Geoffrey Chaucer
2,118 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
16
On A Life Well Spent
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
564 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
17
Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
7,115 members
52 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,473 members
135 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
19
The Birds [in translation]
by Aristophanes
663 members
13 reviews
3.2
Member
ahef1963
20
Oedipus at Colonus (translation)
by Sophocles
663 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
21
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,911 members
231 reviews
3.9
22
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,342 members
116 reviews
4.1
23
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
by Aeschylus
11,761 members
87 reviews
4
24
Poetics
by Aristotle
5,914 members
58 reviews
3.8
25
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by Omar Khayyám
3,574 members
40 reviews
4
26
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
3,230 members
47 reviews
3.8
27
Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger
3,194 members
26 reviews
4.1
28
Gorgias
by Platon
2,865 members
17 reviews
3.8
29
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,768 members
24 reviews
3.9
30
On the Shortness of Life [and other works]
by Seneca
2,735 members
51 reviews
4.1
31
Metaphysics
by Aristotle
2,610 members
25 reviews
4
32
Phaedrus
by Platon
2,181 members
12 reviews
3.8
33
Ars amatoria [Art of Love | in translation]
by Ovid
1,852 members
37 reviews
3.8
34
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
1,638 members
28 reviews
3.9
35
The Conference of the Birds
by Farid Ud-Din Attar
1,614 members
16 reviews
4
36
The Gift
by Hāfez
1,046 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
37
Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
974 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
38
The Trojan Women
by Euripides
781 members
16 reviews
3.8
39
Poems
by Virgil
774 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
40
Heroides [in translation]
by Ovid
667 members
5 reviews
3.9
41
The Persians
by Aeschylus
581 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
42
Fasti [translations]
by Ovid
516 members
3 reviews
3.8
43
Hippolytus
by Euripides
506 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Britannica Great Books: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
by Encyclopedia Britannica
473 members
2 reviews
3.8
45
Ajax [in translation]
by Sophocles
446 members
26 reviews
3.8
46
Iphigenia in Tauris
by Euripides
409 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
47
The Seven Against Thebes
by Aeschylus
407 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
48
I Heard God Laughing
by Hāfez
396 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
49
Electra
by Euripides
377 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
368 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
325 members
1 review
3.9
53
The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi
by Sadi
320 members
5 reviews
3.9
54
Women of Trachis [in translation]
by Sophocles
268 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
55
The Satires
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
242 members
4 reviews
4.2
56
Choephoroe
by Aeschylus
238 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
57
The Masnavi
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
223 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
104 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
2,942 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7