Ancient/Classical World

Description
A list for the best works about, or written during, the ancient/classical period of the Mediterranean region and Mesopotamia (through A.D. 400). All works written after the time period should be non-fiction only.
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1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed
by Eric H. Cline
2,056 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {unabridged - Womersley 3v.}
by Edward Gibbon
203 members
1 review
4.9
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,931 members
69 reviews
4
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Selected Works
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
1,536 members
5 reviews
3.8
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Corruption and the Decline of Rome
by Ramsay MacMullen
178 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
by Charles Freeman
1,211 members
13 reviews
4.1
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by Susan Wise Bauer
1,808 members
24 reviews
4.1
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Aristotle's Politics
by Aristotle
6,755 members
48 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Iliad
by Homer
47,382 members
445 reviews
4
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10
War in Human Civilization
by Azar Gat
235 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
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3 Plays: Acharnians / Clouds / Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
2,346 members
19 reviews
3.9
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12
The Greek Experience
by C. M. Bowra
482 members
5 reviews
4
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13
A history of ancient Egypt
by Nicolas Grimal
515 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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14
The Republic of Plato
by Plato
25,479 members
162 reviews
3.9
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15
Roman Social Relations: 50 BC to AD 284
by Ramsay MacMullen
130 members
3.8
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The Ancient Romans
by Chester G. Starr
166 members
½ 3.5
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Civilization in the West, Volume I: To 1715
by Mark Kishlansky
69 members
½ 3.7
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18
The Thirteen Books of the Elements
by Euclid
1,286 members
7 reviews
½ 4.4
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Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
15,212 members
62 reviews
4
20
The Hittites
by O. R. Gurney
750 members
4 reviews
3.9
21
History Begins at Summer: Twenty-Seven Firsts in Man's Recorded History
by Samuel Noah Kramer
330 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
22
Stories from Ancient Canaan
by Michael David Coogan
327 members
4 reviews
4
23
Carthage: A History
by Serge Lancel
167 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
24
The Visible Past: An Archaeological Reinterpretation of the Ancient World
by Michael Grant
153 members
2 reviews
3.2
25
A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
by Gary Forsythe
125 members
1 review
4.1
26
The Israelites
by B. S. J. Isserlin
107 members
1 review
27
Ancient Armies of the Middle East
by Terence Wise
103 members
½ 3.6
28
Sumer
by André Parrot
97 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
29
Pythagoras
by Thomas Stanley
64 members
2 reviews
4
30
A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75
by Paul-Alain Beaulieu
55 members
½ 3.5
31
Mesopotamia
by Jean-Claude Margueron
32 members
5
32
Babylon: City of Wonders
by Irving L. Finkel
31 members
4.8
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Ancient Athens
by John Miliadis
23 members
34
Bronze age fashion
by H. C. Broholm
4 members