The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Ancient Greece

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
220 The Republic Plato -379 Greek Ancient greek
402 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle -334 Greek Ancient greek
986 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
1049 Works and Days Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
1297 Poetics Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
1364 Fragments Heraclitus -500 Greek Ancient greek
1449 Corpus Aristotelicum Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
1843 Euclid's Elements Euclid -300 Greek Ancient greek
2508 Metaphysics Aristotle -347 Greek Ancient greek
2516 Hippolytus Euripides -428 Greek Ancient greek
3105 Alcestis Euripides -438 Greek Ancient greek
3255 The Theogony Hesiod -700 Greek Ancient greek
4217 Hecuba Euripides -424 Greek Ancient greek
4226 The Frogs Aristophanes -405 Greek Ancient greek
4779 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
5813 Cyclops Euripides -405 Greek Ancient greek
5823 Moralia Plutarch -100 Greek Greek
5843 Andromache Jean Racine 1667 French French
7215 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
8026 The Class Struggle In The Ancient Greek World G. E. M. de Ste. Croix 1981 British English
11247 Tiger At The Gates Jean Giraudoux 1935 French French
11523 Memorabilia Xenophon -371 Greek Ancient greek
14753 Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus -180 Greek Greek
14755 Physics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
15897 The Origins Of European Thought R. B. Onians 1951 British English
17117 Theophrastus William Wall Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas 1992 Greek English
16988 Parmenides Plato -369 Greek Ancient greek
17117 The Voyage Home Pat Barker 2024 British English
17117 My Name Is Sappho Martha Rofheart 1974 Unknown English