7 Top ancient books like Agricola by Tacitus

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Agricola

By: Tacitus

3.68

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome'…

"Whatever is unknown is thought grandiose."

-Tacitus, Agricola

If you liked the ancient plot in Agricola by Tacitus , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Hippolytos

By: Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a w… read more

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  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • classics
"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience."

-Euripides, Hippolytos

"I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly.…"

-Euripides, Hippolytos

"О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену? И это зло с его фальшивым блеском Лучам небес позволил обливать? Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить, Ты обойтись без женщины не мог? Иль из своих за медь и злат…"

-Euripides, Hippolytos

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2. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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3. Walking

By: Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
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4. Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Hell is truth seen too late."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."

-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • classics
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6. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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  • classics
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7. The Persian Expedition

By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell

4.18

Format: None pages,

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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8. The Dyskolos

By: Menander , Carroll Moulton

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

With the discovery and translation of the Dyskolos("The Grouch"), Menander comes alive with subtle … read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
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9. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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  • classics
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10. The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more

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  • classics
"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

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11. Caligula

By: Suetonius

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Paperback

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to … read more

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  • history
  • classics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

12. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

Similar categories in Aeschylus's Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) book and Tacitus's Agricola

  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • classics
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

13. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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14. The Satyricon

By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more

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15. O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

3.90

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more

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  • classics
"Things away from home often look better than they are."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."

-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

16. The Cats of Ulthar

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnam… read more

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17. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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18. Alcestis

By: William Arrowsmith , Euripides

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets… read more

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19. The Complete Poems

By: Catullus , Guy Lee

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more

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20. Agricola

By: Tacitus

3.68

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome'… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"Whatever is unknown is thought grandiose."

-Tacitus, Agricola

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21. Amphitryon

By: Plautus

3.50

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Translation by Sir Robert Allison. The legendary birth of the demigod Hercules treated as riotous, … read more

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  • ancient
  • classics

15 Top classics books like Agricola by Tacitus

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Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

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Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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Walking

Henry David Thoreau

4.26

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Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson

3.71

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9 must-read classics books like The Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Rex Warner, George Cawkwell

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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On Sparta

Plutarch , Christopher Pelling , Richard J.A. Talbert

4.12

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Storm of Steel

Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

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The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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