The Ancients

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Top mentioned books

Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Ancients podcast:
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#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes

The Iliad

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Homer
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#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes

Persians

The Age of the Great Kings
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Lloyd Llewellyn Jones
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#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Andrew George
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Anonymous
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#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes

First peoples in a new world

Populating Ice Age America
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Dr David Meltzer
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#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon
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#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes

I, Claudius

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Robert Graves
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#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Odyssey

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Homer
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#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Heresy

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Catherine Nixey
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#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Xenophon's Anabasis

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Xenophon
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#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Frozen Tombs of Siberia

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Rudenko
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#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Timaeus and Critias

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Plato
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#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Inferno

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Dante Alighieri
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#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Enuma Elish

The Seven Tablets of Creation
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L.W. King
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#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Third Book of Kings

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Jochi Brandes
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#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes

The Fate of Rome

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Kyle Harper
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#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Shakuntala

a Sanskrit drama by Kalidas, rendered into Persian prose and poetry
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Kālidāsa
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#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Far Edges of the Known World

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Dr Owen Rees
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#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Xerxes and the Persians

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Lloyd Llewellyn Jones
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#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Herculaneum

Past and Future
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
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#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes

Children of Ash and Elm

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Neil Price

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