Ancient

The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Is ...more

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The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
The Gates of Athens
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
The Life of Herod the Great
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Inanna (Sumerians, #1)
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
The Republic
Meditations
Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
The Histories
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
The Symposium
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Art of War
Medea

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Robert Louis Stevenson
To the Hesitating Purchaser: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold And all the old romance, retold, Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of to-day: -So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may I And ...more
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Orson Scott Card
...it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.
Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

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