Winged Victory of Samothrace
Artist unknown
190 BC · Louvre, Paris
Nike lands on a warship's prow, wings still open, sea wind pressing the marble drapery flat against her striding body.
★ 9.6
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200 BC – 101 BC
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The Bhagavad Gita
Author unknown
150 BC · 140 pages
Facing his cousins across a battlefield, Arjuna drops his bow. Krishna tells him to act without grasping at results, then takes a form of countless mouths with the worlds burning inside.
★ 7.6
Four Comedies
200 BC · 242 pages
Plautus stole Greek plots and made them Roman, vulgar and fast. Shakespeare lifted his mistaken twins for The Comedy of Errors, Moliere lifted his miser, and farce has run on that machinery since.
★ 7.0
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
The Self-Tormentor · 163 BC
Huainanzi
139 BC