Essential Books in Ancient Time

[Odysseusa]

Torah and Bible
Iliad and Odyssey
Vedas and Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita
I Ching and Art of War


Any more recommendation?

[Ad Orientem]

Way too many to catalogue but here are a few off the top of my head...

Works and Days and Theogony- Hesiod
The Illiad and Odyssey- Homer
Commentaries on the Campaign in Gaul- Gaius Julius Caesar
Various Works- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Various Works- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
History of the Peloponnesian War- Thucydides
Various Works- Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes
City of God and Confessions- Blessed Augustine of Hippo
Various Works- Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch
Orations and Various Works- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Various Works- Cato, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Tibullus, Propertius, Pliny the Elder & Younger
The Fathers of the Church- Various

[KevinW]

The classical stoic philosophers:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Enchiridion by Epictetus, and others

Also the classical Greek math texts of Euclid, Plato, and others.

[dualstow]

The Dao De Jing attributed to Lao-zi ( Tao Te Ching; Lao-tzu / ? ??)
                                                      Edit: apparently Chinese characters don't display here. ;-)

[MediumTex]

What's the cutoff date?

[Odysseusa]

What's the cutoff date?

How about when Jesus was born?

[Ad Orientem]

What's the cutoff date?

How about when Jesus was born?

Antiquity is generally understood to have extended far beyond the birth of Christ. Most historians date the end as the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, though I hasten to note that the Roman Empire in the East did not fall until AD 1453.

[Coffee]

The Collected Works of Mark Twain.

[Ad Orientem]

The Collected Works of Mark Twain.

A Connecticut Yankee in Cleopatra's Court?