Books set in the ancient world
Books set in the ancient world, from prehistory through Greece, Rome and the empires of the Near East. Homer's Odyssey is the source many others return to, Madeline Miller's Circe retells Greek myth from a new side, and Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear goes back to the Ice Age. Irene Vallejo's Papyrus and David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything explore the era as history.
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- 1Circe
8.48.4 / 10 - 2The First Man in Rome
8.28.2 / 10 - 3The Dawn of Everything
8.28.2 / 10 - 4Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
8.18.1 / 10 - 5The Bronze Bow
8.18.1 / 10 - 6The Death of Kings
8.18.1 / 10 - 7The Ring of Solomon
8.08.0 / 10 - 8Wolf Brother
8.08.0 / 10 - 9Siddhartha
8.08.0 / 10 - 10The Clan of the Cave Bear
7.97.9 / 10 - 11Ilium
7.87.8 / 10 - 12Odyssey
7.77.7 / 10 - 13An Acceptable Time
7.77.7 / 10 - 14The Forest House
7.77.7 / 10 - 15Pyramids
7.67.6 / 10 - 16Prometheus Bound
7.67.6 / 10 - 17Taliesin
7.67.6 / 10 - 18Coriolanus
7.67.6 / 10 - 19Time's Eye
7.67.6 / 10 - 20Death Comes as the End
7.57.5 / 10 - 21The Queen of the Damned
7.57.5 / 10 - 22The Art of War
7.57.5 / 10 - 23Julius Caesar
7.57.5 / 10 - 24The Epic of Gilgamesh
7.57.5 / 10 - 25Salome
7.47.4 / 10 - 26Antigone
7.47.4 / 10 - 27Servant of the Bones
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