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    (Difficult: 98%, Appropriate: 99%)
    Conventional Readability Formula
    Title Author Translator Born Died 90% 95% 98% 99% 99.5% 99.9% Word Count (Pages) Words per Sentence Syllables per Word Fog Index Flesch Reading Ease Flesch-Kincaid
    Details The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 4000 7000 9000 12000 21000 128461
    (321)
    28.9 1.35 14.4 63.1 11.6
    Details The Iliad Homer Butler, Samuel 750BC (1835) 650BC (1902) 2000 5000 8000 11000 14000 22000 152112
    (380)
    31.0 1.35 15.0 61.5 12.4
    Details The Iliad Homer Pope, Alexander 750BC (1688) 650BC (1744) 4000 6000 10000 12000 16000 23000 188352
    (470)
    23.1 1.42 12.7 63.4 10.2
    Details The Odyssey of Homer Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 11000 13000 16000 23000 116500
    (291)
    22.1 1.43 12.4 63.1 10.0
    Details The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Homer Cowper, William 750BC (1731) 650BC (1800) 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 24000 169570
    (423)
    21.2 1.46 12.7 61.8 9.9
    Details Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 10000 12000 22000 41387
    (103)
    25.3 1.33 12.4 68.4 10.0
    Details The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 7000 9000 11000 17000 27122
    (67)
    15.7 1.33 8.5 78.2 6.3
    Details Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop Townsend, George Fyler 620BC (1814) 563BC (1900) 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 22000 40748
    (101)
    22.2 1.43 12.6 63.5 9.9
    Details Aesop's Fables Aesop 620BC 563BC 2000 5000 8000 10000 12000 17000 12261
    (30)
    19.3 1.3 9.7 77.1 7.3
    Details The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanator Aeschylus Murray, Gilbert 525BC (1866) 456BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 11000 13000 20000 20586
    (51)
    13.1 1.4 8.4 75.1 6.1
    Details Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus Buckley, Theodore Alois 525BC (1825) 456BC (1856) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 23000 27489
    (68)
    12.4 1.53 9.8 64.4 7.4
    Details Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles Murray, Gilbert 495BC (1866) 406BC (1957) 3000 5000 8000 10000 15000 23000 17732
    (44)
    9.6 1.35 6.9 82.5 4.1
    Details Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles Storr, Francis 495BC (1839) 406BC (1919) 4000 7000 11000 15000 19000 24000 37158
    (92)
    14.7 1.38 8.9 75.1 6.4
    Details The Seven Plays in English Verse Sophocles Campbell, Lewis 495BC (1830) 406BC (1908) 4000 6000 10000 14000 16000 23000 91256
    (228)
    9.5 1.36 6.6 82.2 4.2
    Details The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 Herodotus Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) 480BC (1852) 420BC (1915) 2000 4000 6000 9000 12000 19000 145187
    (362)
    39.5 1.5 20.9 40.1 17.5
    Details Medea of Euripides Euripides Murray, Gilbert 480BC (1866) 406BC (1957) 4000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 19773
    (49)
    12.0 1.36 7.3 79.8 5.1
    Details The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 Herodotus Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell) 480BC (1852) 420BC (1915) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 19000 159214
    (398)
    38.2 1.44 19.5 45.9 16.4
    Details The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides Crawley, Richard 455BC (1840) 395BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 8000 11000 17000 204634
    (511)
    39.8 1.57 22.0 33.4 18.5
    Details Lysistrata Aristophanes 446BC 385BC 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 21000 14327
    (35)
    12.9 1.49 9.4 67.9 7.0
    Details Clouds Aristophanes Hickie, William James 446BC 385BC 3000 7000 18000 18000 20000 22000 15272
    (38)
    8.9 1.42 7.0 78.1 4.6
    Details Anabasis Xenophon Dakyns, Henry Graham 431BC (1838) 350BC (1911) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 20000 93859
    (234)
    26.4 1.47 15.1 55.8 12.0
    Details Apology Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 12000 17000 16049
    (40)
    28.8 1.46 15.8 54.0 12.9
    Details Euthyphro Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 7000 8000 15000 19000 9188
    (22)
    19.3 1.48 13.0 62.1 9.4
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 215540
    (538)
    24.7 1.49 14.7 56.0 11.6
    Details Phaedrus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 4000 6000 9000 11000 17000 38099
    (95)
    30.0 1.5 16.9 49.6 13.8
    Details Gorgias Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 17000 59271
    (148)
    23.6 1.5 14.7 56.3 11.3
    Details Symposium Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 9000 11000 18000 32513
    (81)
    31.4 1.49 17.4 49.1 14.2
    Details Phaedo Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 42694
    (106)
    26.6 1.46 15.2 56.0 12.1
    Details Meno Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 10000 16000 22147
    (55)
    19.6 1.5 12.8 59.8 9.8
    Details Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates Plato Cary, Henry 427BC (1804) 347BC (1870) 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 20000 51647
    (129)
    21.7 1.45 13.1 62.5 9.9
    Details Theaetetus Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 5000 7000 9000 15000 65641
    (164)
    23.9 1.53 15.2 53.2 11.8
    Details The Republic Plato Jowett, Benjamin 427BC (1817) 347BC (1893) 2000 3000 6000 8000 10000 16000 124102
    (310)
    22.4 1.45 13.2 61.6 10.2
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry) 384BC (1850) 322BC (1910) 3000 5000 11000 12000 14000 18000 15099
    (37)
    23.4 1.59 16.0 48.9 12.2
    Details The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiec Aristotle 384BC 322BC 3000 6000 10000 15000 18000 23000 107312
    (268)
    26.1 1.45 14.5 57.5 11.7
    Details Poetics. English Aristotle Bywater, Ingram 384BC (1840) 322BC (1914) 3000 3000 6000 8000 11000 18000 18459
    (46)
    26.1 1.54 16.2 49.9 12.8
    Details Politics: A Treatise on Government Aristotle Ellis, William 384BC 322BC 2000 3000 6000 8000 11000 15000 101343
    (253)
    55.7 1.54 27.9 20.4 24.2
    Details De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries Caesar, Julius McDevitte, W. A. (William Alexander) 100BC 44BC 3000 4000 7000 10000 12000 17000 158969
    (397)
    33.9 1.55 19.3 41.0 16.0
    Details On the Nature of Things Lucretius Carus, Titus Leonard, William Ellery 94BC (1876) 49BC (1944) 4000 7000 10000 13000 15000 23000 73647
    (184)
    41.8 1.39 19.5 47.2 17.1
    Details The Aeneid English Virgil Dryden, John 70BC (1631) 19BC (1700) 4000 6000 10000 13000 16000 23000 106024
    (265)
    24.5 1.34 11.8 68.2 9.8
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 5000 9000 12000 16000 24000 137832
    (344)
    21.9 1.49 13.5 58.2 10.6
    Details The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas) 43BC (1816) 18 (1878) 3000 6000 10000 13000 18000 25000 123549
    (308)
    20.1 1.5 12.7 59.9 9.9
    Details The Satyricon — Complete Petronius Arbiter 20 66 3000 6000 9000 12000 15000 22000 97604
    (244)
    25.3 1.52 14.9 52.9 12.2
    Details The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Josephus, Flavius Whiston, William 38 (1667) 100 (1752) 2000 4000 7000 10000 13000 18000 233520
    (583)
    37.5 1.47 19.7 44.6 16.4
    Details Antiquities of the Jews Josephus, Flavius Whiston, William 38 (1667) 100 (1752) 2000 4000 7000 10000 12000 20000 531622
    (1329)
    37.5 1.46 19.8 44.8 16.3
    Details Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Plutarch Stewart, Aubrey 46 (1844) 120 3000 4000 7000 9000 12000 19000 184023
    (460)
    32.8 1.53 18.6 44.0 15.3
    Details De vita Caesarum Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius 75 160 3000 5000 9000 12000 15000 22000 228866
    (572)
    26.5 1.63 17.5 42.4 13.9
    Details Meditations Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome 121 180 3000 5000 8000 10000 13000 19000 71538
    (178)
    21.0 1.47 13.0 60.9 10.0
    Details The Golden Asse Apuleius, Lucius 125 180 3000 6000 10000 15000 17000 23000 80574
    (201)
    51.6 1.43 24.2 33.7 21.4
    Details The Confessions of St. Augustine Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie) 354 (1800) 430 (1882) 3000 5000 8000 11000 14000 19000 111847
    (279)
    30.4 1.41 15.7 57.0 12.9
    Details The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius James, H. R. (Henry Rosher) 480 (1862) 525 (1931) 4000 5000 8000 11000 14000 20000 42189
    (105)
    19.5 1.47 12.3 62.6 9.4

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