Top 10 Must Read  Classic Greek  Best Selling Novels

 

10 Best Sellers in  Classic Greek  Books You Must Read

Here you will find ten of the best  Classic Greek  Novels in the world, based on experience, user review and volume of sales. Having explored, read or at the very least skimmed the books I bring you the best 10  Classic Greek  that are worth your time and energy to read.

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Mythology

Author: Edith Hamilton

Headline: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer

Author: Homer

Headline: Contains the two great epic poems of Homer. The Iliad describes the Trojan War and the fall of Troy. The Odyssey describes the voyages of Odysseus on his return from the Trojan War. Both were translated into English prose by Samuel Butler.

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The Three Theban Plays

Author: Sophocles

Headline: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated)

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Letters from a Stoic

Author: Lucius Seneca

Headline: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full.

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Theogony and Works and Days

Author: Hesiod

Headline: Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the Titans. In contrast, Works and Days is a compendium of moral and practical advice on husbandry, and throws unique and fascinating light on archaic Greek society

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The Iliad of Homer

Author: Homer

Headline: “Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation.” For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.

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The Republic

Author: Plato

Headline: Plato’s Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge; what is the purpose of education? With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by ‘philosopher kings’.

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If Not, Winter

Author: Sappho

Headline: Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or, to use Sappho’s words, as “thin fire . . . racing under skin.”

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The Oresteia

Author: Aeschylus

Headline: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Illustrated)

The Odyssey

Author: Homer

Headline: The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology-adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War. . Crucial themes in the poem include the ideas of nostos, wandering, Xenia, testing, and omens. Scholars still reflect on the narrative significance of certain groups in the poem, such as women and slaves, who have a more prominent role in the epic than in many other works of ancient literature. This focus is especially remarkable when considered beside the Iliad, which centres the exploits of soldiers and kings during the Trojan War.

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Top 10  Classic Greek  Novels in the World

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