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
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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