Editing Lost literary work (section)

===Specific titles===
* [[Enheduanna]] (24th–23rd century BC)
** ''Hymn of Praise of Enheduanna'', only survives in fragments.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Westenholz |first1=Joan Goodnick |title=Enḫeduanna, En-Priestess, Hen of Nanna, Spouse of Nanna |editor-last1=Behrens |editor-first1=Hermann |editor-last2=Loding |editor-first2=Darlene |editor-last3=Roth |editor-first3=Martha T. |encyclopedia=DUMU-E-DUB-BA-A : Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg |date=1989 |publisher=The University Museum |location=Philadelphia, PA |isbn=0-934718-98-9 |pages=539–556}}</ref>
* [[Homer]] (8th or 7th century BC)
** ''[[Margites]]''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-guide-to-homer/margites/964C19FB084D09D34B369CFC00D35032|title=Homer's Margites|chapter=Margites |website=www.Cambridge.org|date=February 22, 2020|pages=171–172 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-02719-0 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.bookstr.com/article/the-margites-homers-lost-comedy-youve-never-heard-of/|title=Homer's Lost Comedy|website=Bookstr.com|date=August 7, 2021}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-top-10-books-lost-to-time-83373197/|title=Top 10 Lost Books|website=www.Smithsonianmg.com|date=September 19, 2011|access-date=January 21, 2024}}</ref>
** The ''[[Odyssey]]'' mentions the blind singer [[Demodocus (Odyssey character)|Demodocus]] performing a poem recounting the otherwise unknown "Quarrel of [[Odysseus]] and [[Achilles]]", which might have been an actual work that did not survive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/3-a-conflict-between-odysseus-and-achilles-in-the-iliad/|title=Quarrel of Odysseus & Achilles|website=www.Harvard.edu}}</ref>
* The [[Hesiod]]ic ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' (sometime between 750 and 650 BC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html|title=Catalogue of Women|website=www.Theoi.com}}</ref>
* The work of the [[Cyclic poets]] (excluding [[Homer]], dated between the 8th century and 5th century BC), specifically:
** six epics of the [[Epic Cycle]]: ''[[Cypria]]'', ''[[Aethiopis]]'', the ''[[Little Iliad]]'', the ''[[Iliupersis]]'' ("Sack of Troy"), ''[[Nostoi]]'' ("Returns"), and ''[[Telegony]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chs.harvard.edu/primary-source/epic-cycle-sb/|title=Lost Works of the Epic Cycle|website=www.Harvard.edu|date=November 2, 2020}}</ref>
** four epics of the [[Theban Cycle]]: ''[[Oedipodea]]'', ''[[Thebaid (Greek poem)|Thebaid]]'', ''[[Epigoni (epic)|Epigoni]]'', and ''[[Alcmeonis]]''.
** [[Cyclic poets|other early Greek epics]]: ''[[Titanomachy (epic poem)|Titanomachy]]'', ''[[Peisander|Heracleia]]'', ''[[Capture of Oechalia]]'', ''[[Naupactia]]'', ''[[Thestorides of Phocaea|Phocais]]'', ''[[Minyas (poem)|Minyas]]''
* [[Thespis]] ({{circa|6th century BC}})<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thespis-Greek-poet|title=Lost Works of Thespis|website=www.britannica.com|access-date=January 13, 2024}}</ref> (possibly erroneous attributions or forgeries made during the Common Era)
** ''Contest of Pelias and Phorbas'' 
** ''Hiereis'' (or ''Priests'')
** ''Hemitheoi'' (or ''Demigods'')
** ''Pentheus''
* [[Thales]] ({{circa|624/623|548/545 BC}})
** ''On the Solstice'' (possible lost work)
** ''On the Equinox'' (possible lost work)
* [[Anaximander]] ({{circa|610|546 BC}})<ref>{{cite book |last=Soudas|date=900|title=[[The Suda]]}}</ref>
** ''On Nature'' (or ''Perì Phúseôs'')
** ''Rotation of the Earth'' (or ''Gês Períodos'')
** ''On Fixed Stars'' (or ''Perì Tôn Aplanôn'')
** ''The Celestial Sphere'' (or ''Sphaîra)'')
* The ''[[Hellespontine Sibyl]]'' (c. 6th century BC)
** [[Sibylline Books]]
* [[Pherecydes of Syros]] (6th century BCE)
** ''Heptamychia''
* [[Ctesias]] (fifth century BC)
** ''Persica'', a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books
** ''[[Indica (Ctesias)|Indica]]'', an account of India
* [[Aeschylus]] (525–455 BC)<ref>{{Cite book|last= Wright|first= Matthew|title= Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2): Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides|date= 2018|publisher= Bloomsbury Academic}}</ref>
** ''Alcmene'' 
** ''The Argo''
** ''Atalanta'' 
** ''The Bacchae'' 
** ''Callisto'' 
** ''The Children of Heracles'' 
** ''Circe''
** ''The Danaids'' 
** ''The Egyptians''
** ''Epigoni'' 
** ''Iphigenia''
** ''Ixion''
** ''The Lion''
** ''Memnon'' 
** ''[[Achilleis (trilogy)|Myrmidons]]'', survives in fragments.
** ''[[Achilleis (trilogy)|Nereids]]'', survives in fragments. 
** ''Niobe'' 
** ''The Nurses of Dionysus''
** ''Penelope''
** ''Pentheus''
** ''Philoctetes''
** ''[[Achilleis (trilogy)|Phrygians]]'' (or ''Hector’s Ransom''), survives in fragments. 
** ''The Priestesses'' 
** ''Prometheus The Fire-Bearer'' 
** ''Prometheus The Fire-Kindler''
** ''Prometheus Unbound''
** ''Semele''
** ''Sisyphus The Runaway''
** ''Sisyphus The Stone-Roller''
** ''The Sphinx'' 
** ''Telephus''
** ''The Thracian Women''
** ''The Weighing of Souls'' 
** ''Women of Salamis''
** ''The Youths'' 
* [[Anaxagoras]] (c. 500 – 428 BC)
** ''Book of Philosophy''. Only fragments of the first part have survived.
* [[Xenocles]] (c. 5th century BC)<ref name="auto">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Zimmerman|first=Bernhard|entry=Xenocles [2]|title=Brill's New Pauly|year=2006|doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12212800}}</ref>
** ''Athamas''
** ''Bacchae''
** ''Licymnius''
** ''Lycaon''
** ''Myes''
** ''Oedipus''
* [[Sophocles]] (c. 497 – 406 BC)<ref>{{Cite book|last= Wilkins|first= John|title= Lost Plays of Sophocles|date= 1986|publisher= Cambridge University Press}}</ref>
** ''Akhilleôs Erasti'' (or ''Male Lover of Achilles''). 
** ''Aigeus'' 
** ''[[Aithiopes]]''
** ''Alexandros''
** ''[[Amphiaraus (play)|Amphiaurus]]''
** ''[[Amycos Satyrykos]]''
** ''Antenoridae'' 
** ''Cassandra'' 
** ''Cerberus'' 
** ''Clytemnestra''
** ''Daedalus'' 
** ''Danae''
** ''Dionysiaca''
** ''[[Epigoni (play)|Epigoni]]'', only small fragments survive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/article/download/7711/4853/14707|title=Epigoni by Sophocles|website=www.Duke.edu}}</ref>
** ''Eris'' 
** ''Helenes Apaitesis'' (or ''Helen’s Demand''). 
** ''Helenes Gamos'' (or ''Helen’s Marriage''). 
** ''Herakles Epi Tainaro'' (or ''Heracles At Taenarum''). 
** ''[[Ichneutae]]'', only a fragmentary 400 lines survive making it the second best surviving [[Satyr play]] behind [[Euripides]]'s [[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]].
** ''Inachos'', only small fragments survive. 
** ''Ion'' 
** ''Iphigenia'' 
** ''Ixion''
** ''Minos'' 
** ''Niobe''
** ''[[Odysseus Acanthoplex]]'', only fragments survive. 
** ''Odysseus Mainomenos'' (or ''Odysseus Gone Mad'') 
** ''Pandora''
** ''Peleus''
** ''Phaedra''
** ''Philoctetes In Troy''
** ''Phoenix''
** ''Priam'' 
** ''Sisyphus''
** ''Tantalus''
** ''[[Tereus (play)|Tereus]]'', only fragmentary knowledge survives. 
** ''Theseus''
** ''[[Triptolemos (play)|Triptolemos]]'', only small fragments survive. 
* [[Ion of Chios]] (c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/ListTragedians.html#Ion|title=Ion of Chios|website=www.Theoi.com|access-date= August 4, 2024}}</ref>
** ''Agamemnon''
** ''Alcmene''
** ''Argives''
** ''Eurytidai'' (or ''Sons of Erytus'') 
** ''Laertes''
** ''Omphale''
** ''Phoenix and Caeneus''
** ''Phoenix Deuteros''
** ''Phrouroi'' (or ''Sentinels'')
** ''Teucer'' 
* [[Protagoras]] (c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC)
** "On the Gods" (essay)
** ''On the Art of Disputation''
** ''On the Original State of Things''
** ''On Truth''
* [[Gorgias]] (483–375 BC)
** ''On Non-Existence'' (or ''On Nature''). Only two sketches of it exist.
** ''Epitaphios''. What exists is thought to be only a small fragment of a significantly longer piece.
* [[Pherecydes of Leros]] (c. 480 BC)
** A history of [[Leros]]
** ''On Iphigeneia'', an essay
** ''On the Festivals of Dionysus''
* [[Euripides]] (c. 480 – c. 406 BC)
** ''[[Alcmaeon in Corinth]]'' (405 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''[[Alcmaeon in Psophis]]'' (438 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''Alexandros'' (415 BC) 
** ''[[Andromeda (play)|Andromeda]]'' (412 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''Antiope'' (410 BC) 
** ''[[Archelaus (play)|Archelaus]]'' (410 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''[[Bellerophon (play)|Bellerophon]]'' (430 BC), only fragments survive. 
** ''Captive Melanippe'' (412 BC) 
** ''Cresphontes'' (425 BC)
** ''Cretan Women'' (438 BC)
** ''Cretans'' (435 BC) 
** ''[[Dictys]]'' (431 BC), only fragments survive. 
** ''Erectheus'' (422 BC) 
** ''[[Hypsipyle (play)|Hypsipyle]]'' (410 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''Palamedes'' (415 BC) 
** ''[[Peliades]]'' (455 BC)
** ''[[Phaethon (play)|Phaethon]]'' (420 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''[[Philoctetes (Euripides play)|Philoctetes]]'' (431 BC), only fragments survive.
** ''[[Sisyphus fragment|Sisyphus]]'' (415 BC) 
** ''Sthenboea'' (429 BC) 
** ''Telephus'' (438 BC)
** ''[[Theristai]]'' (or ''Reapers'') (431 BC)
** ''Wise Melanippe'' (420 BC) 
* [[Socrates]] (c. 470–399 BC)
** Verse versions of [[Aesop's Fables]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/part-i-greece-15-socrates-the-new-aesop/#:~:text=%5B37%5D%20Socrates%20makes%20up%20Aesopic,the%20dialogue%20of%20Socrates'%20death.|title=Socrates on Aesop|date=2006}}</ref>
* [[Pherecydes of Athens]] (c. 465 BC)
** Genealogies of the gods and heroes, originally in ten books; numerous fragments have been preserved.
* [[Prodicus]] ({{Circa|465 BC|lk=no}} – c. 395 BC)
** ''On Nature''
** ''On the Nature of Man''
** "On Propriety of Language"
** ''On the Choice of Heracles''
* [[Agathon]] (c. 448 – c. 400 BC)
** ''Aerope'' 
** ''Alcmaeon''
** ''[[Anthos (play)|Anthos]]'' (or ''The Flower'')<ref>{{cite book|title=Classical Literary Criticism|chapter=[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]|author=Aristotle|author-link=Aristotle|translator=Dorsch, T.S.|page=69|year=2000|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=9780140446517}}</ref>
** ''Mysoi'' (or ''Mysians'')
** ''Telephos'' (or ''Telephus'')
** ''Thyestes''
* [[Aristophanes]] (c. 446 BC – c. 386 BC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.greekmythology.com/Plays/Aristophanes/aristophanes.html|title=Aristophanes}}</ref>
** Banqueters (427 BC)
** Babylonians (426 BC) 
** The Clouds (first version 423 BC)
** Amphiaraus (414 BC)
** Plutus (first version 408 BC) 
** Cocalus (387 BC) 
** Aiolosicon (387 BC)
* [[Speusippus]] (c. 408 – 339/8 BC)
** ''On Pythagorean Numbers''
* [[Aristotle]] (384–322 BC)
** second book of ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]'', dealing with comedy
** ''On the Pythagoreans''<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/283647|title=Aristotle's Monograph on the Pythagoreans|jstor=283647 |last1=Philip |first1=J. A. |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association |date=1963 |volume=94 |pages=185–198 |doi=10.2307/283647 }}</ref>
** ''[[Protrepticus (Aristotle)|Protrepticus]]'' (fragments survived)
* [[Eudemus of Rhodes|Eudemus]] (c. 370 BCE – c. 300 BCE)
** ''History of Arithmetics'', on the early history of Greek arithmetics (only one short quote survives)
** ''History of Astronomy'', on the early history of Greek astronomy (several quotes survive)
** ''History of Geometry'', on the early history of Greek geometry (several quotes survive)
* [[Ptolemy I Soter]] (c. 364 – 282 BC)
** ''History of Alexander''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Teil 2, Zeitgeschichte. – B. Spezialgeschichten, Autobiographien und Memoiren, Zeittafeln [Nr. 106-261]|last=Jacoby|first=Felix|publisher=Weidmann|year=1926|oclc=769308142|location=Berlin|pages=752–769, no. 138, "Ptolemaios Lagu"}}</ref>
* [[Callisthenes]] (c. 360 – 327 BCE)
** An account of [[Alexander]]'s expedition
** A history of Greece from the [[Peace of Antalcidas]] (387) to the [[Third Sacred War]] (357)
** A history of the Phocian war
* [[Cleitarchus]] (mid to late 4th century BCE)
** ''[[History of Alexander]]''
* [[Pytheas]] of Massalia (c. 350 BC, fl. c. 320–306 BC)
** τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ (''ta peri tou Okeanou'') "On the Ocean"
* [[Aristarchus of Samos]] (c. 310 – c. 230 BCE)
** Astronomy book outlining his [[heliocentrism]] ([[astronomical]] model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Aristarchus/#:~:text=The%20only%20surviving%20work%20of,by%20Archimedes%20has%20been%20lost.|title=Aristarchus of Samos Lost Work|access-date=January 13, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Manetho]] (early third century BC)
** ''[[Ægyptiaca]]'' (''History of Egypt'') in three books. Only few fragments survive.
* [[Berossus]] (beginning of the 3rd century BC)
** ''[[Babyloniaca (Berossus)|Babyloniaca]]'' (''History of Babylonia'')
* [[Euclid]] (fl. 300 BC)
** ''Conics'', a work on [[conic section]]s later extended by [[Apollonius of Perga]] into his famous work on the subject.
** ''[[Porism]]s'', the exact meaning of the title is controversial (probably "corollaries").
** ''Pseudaria'', or ''Book of Fallacies'', an elementary text about errors in [[reasoning]].
** ''Surface Loci'' concerned either [[Locus (mathematics)|loci]] (sets of points) on surfaces or loci which were themselves surfaces.
* [[Archimedes]] (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
** ''[[On Sphere-Making]]''
** ''On Polyhedra''
* [[Ctesibius]] (285–222 BC)
** ''On pneumatics'', a work describing force pumps
** ''Memorabilia'', a compilation of his research works
* [[Livius Andronicus]] (284–204 BC) 
** ''Achilles''
** ''Aegisthus''
** ''Aiax Mastigophorus'' (or ''Ajax with the Whip'')
** ''Andromeda''
** ''Antiopa'' 
** ''Danae''
** ''Equus Troianus''
** ''Gladiolus'', only fragments survive 
** ''Hermiona''
** ''Ludius''
** ''Odusia'', a Latin translation of Homer’s Odyssey, only fragments survive 
** ''Tereus''
** ''Virgo''
* [[Eratosthenes]] (c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC)
** Περὶ τῆς ἀναμετρήσεως τῆς γῆς (''On the Measurement of the Earth''; lost, summarized by [[Cleomedes]])
** ''Geographica'' (lost, criticized by [[Strabo]])
** ''Arsinoe'' (a memoir of queen [[Arsinoe III of Egypt|Arsinoe]]; lost; quoted by [[Athenaeus]] in the ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'')
* [[Cato the Elder]] (234–149 BC)
** ''Origines'', a 7-book history of Rome and the Italian states.
** ''Carmen de moribus'', a book of prayers or incantations for the dead in verse.
** ''Praecepta ad Filium'', a collection of maxims.
** A collection of his speeches.
* Nicagoras, Athenian sophist (2nd century BC)
** ''Lives of Famous People''
** ''On Cleopatra in Troas''
** ''Embassy Speech to Philip the Roman Emperor''
* Minucianus, son of Nicagoras the Athenian sophist (2nd century BC)
** ''Art of Rhetoric''
** ''Progymnasmata''
* [[Nicander]] (2nd century BC)
** ''Aetolica'', a prose history of [[Aetolia]].
** ''Heteroeumena'', a mythological epic.
** ''Georgica'' and ''Melissourgica'', of which considerable fragments are preserved.
* [[Agatharchides]] (2nd century BC)
**''Ta kata ten Asian'' (''Affairs in Asia'') in 10 books
** ''Ta kata ten Europen'' (''Affairs in Europe'') in 49 books
** ''Peri ten Erythras thalasses'' (''On the Erythraean Sea'') in 5 books
* [[Apollodorus of Athens]] (c. 180 BC – after 120 BC)
** ''Chronicle'' (''Χρονικά''), a Greek history in verse
** ''On the Gods'' (''Περὶ θεῶν''), known through quotes to have included etymologies of the names and epithets of the gods
** A twelve-book essay about Homer's Catalogue of Ships
* [[Sulla]] (138–78 BC)
** ''Memoirs'', referenced by [[Plutarch]]
* [[Varro]] (116–27 BC)
** ''Saturarum Menippearum libri CL or Menippean Satires in 150 books''
** ''Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum libri XLI''
** ''Logistoricon libri LXXVI''
** ''Hebdomades vel de imaginibus''
** ''Disciplinarum libri IX''
* [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]] (106 BC – 43 BC)
** ''[[Hortensius (Cicero)|Hortensius]]'' a dialogue also known as "On Philosophy".
** ''[[Consolatio (Cicero)|Consolatio]]'', written to soothe his own sadness at the death of his daughter [[Tullia (daughter of Cicero)|Tullia]]
* [[Quintus Tullius Cicero]] (102 – 43 BC)
** Four tragedies in the Greek style: ''Troas'', ''Erigones'', ''Electra'', and one other.
* [[Diodorus Siculus]] (1st century BC)
** ''Bibliotheca historia'' (''Historical Library''). Of 40 books, only books 1–5 and 10–20 are [[wikt:extant|extant]].
* [[Alexander Polyhistor]] (first half of 1st century BC)
** ''[[Successions of Philosophers]]''
* [[Julius Caesar|Gaius Julius Caesar]] (100 BC – 44 BC)
** ''Anticatonis Libri II'' (only fragments survived)
** ''Carmina et prolusiones'' (only fragments survived)
** ''De analogia libri II ad M. Tullium Ciceronem''
** ''De astris liber''
** ''Dicta collectanea'' ("collected sayings", also known by the Greek title ''άποφθέγματα'')
** Letters (only fragments survived)
*** ''Epistulae ad Ciceronem'' ('Letters to Cicero')
*** ''Epistulae ad familiares'' ('Letters to Relatives')
** ''Iter'' ('journey')) (only one fragment survived)
** ''Laudes Herculis''
** ''Libri auspiciorum'' ("books of auspices", also known as ''Auguralia'')
** ''Oedipus''
** other works:
*** contributions to the ''libri pontificales'' as ''pontifex maximus''
*** possibly some early love poems
* [[Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)|Gaius Asinius Pollio]] (75 BC – AD 4)
** ''Historiae'' (''Histories'')
** ''Epitome'' by Gaius Asinius Pollio of Tralles
* [[Gaius Maecenas]] (c. 70 – 8 BC)
** ''Prometheus''; descriptive fragments from some other authors survive. Construct of book is surmised by researchers.
* [[Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus]] (64 BC – AD 8 or c. 12)
** Memoirs of the civil wars after the death of Caesar, used by Suetonius and Plutarch
** Bucolic poems in Greek
* [[Strabo]] ( 64 or 63 BC – c. 24 AD)
** ''History''
* [[Augustus]] (63 BC – AD 14)
** ''Rescript to Brutus Respecting Cato''
** ''Exhortations to Philosophy''
** ''History of His Own Life''
** ''Sicily'' (a work in verse)
** ''Epigrams''
* [[Livy]] (59 BC – AD 17)
** 107 of the 142 books of ''[[Ab Urbe Condita Libri|Ab Urbe Condita]],'' a history of Rome are lost
* [[Verrius Flaccus]] (c. 55 BC – AD 20)
** ''De Orthographia: De Obscuris Catonis'', an elucidation of obscurities in the writings of [[Cato the Elder]]
** ''Saturnus'', dealing with questions of Roman ritual
** ''Rerum memoria dignarum libri'', an encyclopaedic work much used by [[Pliny the Elder]]
** ''Res Etruscae'', probably on [[augury]]
* [[Helvius Cinna]] (died 20 March 44 BC)
**''Zmyrna'', a mythological epic poem about the incestuous love of Smyrna (or [[Myrrha]]) for her father [[Cinyras]]
* [[Ovid]] 43 BC – 17/18 AD)
** ''Medea'', of which only two fragments survive.
* [[Tiberius]] (42 BC – AD 37)
** Autobiography ("brief and sketchy", per [[Suetonius]])
* [[Claudius]] (10 BC – AD 54)
** ''[[De arte aleae]]'' (''The art of playing dice'', a book on dice games)
** an [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] dictionary
** ''[[Tyrrhenika]]'', twenty volumes on Etruscan history
** a history of Augustus' reign
** ''Carchedonica'', eight volumes on Carthaginian history
** a defense of Cicero against the charges of Asinius Gallus
* [[Seneca the Younger]] (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
** Book on signs, 5000 were compiled
** ''Against Superstitions,'' Augustine preserved some passages.
** Book on medicine. Either a planned or lost literary work
* [[Memnon of Heraclea]] (c. 1st century AD)
** ''History of [[Heraclea Pontica]]''
* [[Pamphilus of Alexandria]] (1st century AD)
** Comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.
* [[Agrippina the Younger]] (AD 15 – AD 59)
** ''Casus suorum'' (''Misfortunes of her Family'', a memoir)
* [[Pliny the Elder]] (AD 23/24 – 79)
** ''History of the German Wars'', some quotations survive in [[Tacitus]]'s ''[[Annals (Tacitus)|Annals]]'' and ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]''
** ''Studiosus'', a detailed work on rhetoric
** ''Dubii sermonis'', in eight books
** ''History of his Times'', in thirty-one books, also quoted by Tacitus.
** ''De jaculatione equestri'', a military handbook on missiles thrown from horseback.
* [[Quintilian]] (c. 35 – c. 100 AD)
** ''De Causis Corruptae Eloquentiae'' (''On the Causes of Corrupted Eloquence'')
* [[Lucan]] (39 AD – 65 AD)
** ''Catachthonion''
** ''Iliacon'' from the Trojan cycle
** ''Epigrammata''
** ''[[Adlocutio]] ad Pollam''
** ''Silvae''
** ''Saturnalia''
** ''Medea''
** ''Salticae Fabulae''
** ''Laudes Neronis'', a praise of [[Nero]]
** ''Orpheus''
** ''Prosa oratio in Octavium Sagittam''
** ''Epistulae ex Campania''
** ''De Incendio Urbis''
* [[Frontinus]] (c. 40 – 103 AD)
** ''De re militari'', a military manual
* [[Trajan]] (AD 53 – 117)
** ''[[Dacica]]'' (or ''De bello dacico'')
* [[Philo of Byblos]] (c. 64 – 141)
** ''Phoenician History'', a Greek translation of the original [[Phoenician language|Phoenician]] book attributed to [[Sanchuniathon]]. Considerable fragments have been preserved, chiefly by Eusebius in the ''Praeparatio evangelica'' (i.9; iv.16).
* [[Suetonius]] (c. AD 69 – after AD 122)
** ''De Viris Illustribus'' (''On Famous Men'' – in the field of literature), to which belongs: ''De Illustribus Grammaticis'' (''Lives Of The Grammarians''), ''De Claris Rhetoribus'' (''Lives Of The Rhetoricians''), and ''Lives Of The Poets''. Some fragments exist.
** ''Lives of Famous Whores''
** ''Royal Biographies''
** ''Roma'' (''On Rome''), in four parts: ''Roman Manners & Customs'', ''The Roman Year'', ''The Roman Festivals'', and ''Roman Dress''.
** ''Greek Games''
** ''On Public Offices''
** ''On Cicero’s Republic''
** ''The Physical Defects of Mankind''
** ''Methods of Reckoning Time''
** ''An Essay on Nature''
** ''Greek Terms of Abuse''
** ''Grammatical Problems''
** ''Critical Signs Used in Books''
* [[Septimius Severus]] (145 – 211)
** ''Autobiography''
*[[Callinicus (Sophist)|Callinicus]] (3rd century AD)
**''Against the Philosophical Sects''
**''On the Renewal of Rome''
**''Prosphonetikon to Gallienus,''  a salute addressed to the emperor
**''To Cleopatra, On the History of Alexandria'', most likely dedicated to [[Zenobia]], who claimed descent from [[Cleopatra]]
**''To Lupus, On Bad Taste on Rhetoric''
* [[Disciples of Plotinus#Zoticus|Zoticus]] (3rd century AD)
** ''Story of Atlantis,'' a poem mentioned by [[Porphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]]
* [[Cassius Longinus (philosopher)|Longinus]] (c. 213 – 273 AD) 
**''On The End: by Longinus in answer to Plotinus and Gentilianus Amelius'' (preface survives, quoted by [[Porphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]])
**''On Impulse''
**''On Principles''
**''Lover of Antiquity''
**''On the Natural Life''
**''Difficulties in Homer''
**''Whether Homer is a Philosopher''
**''Homeric Problems and Solutions''
**''Things Contrary to History which the Grammarians Explain as Historical''
**''On Words in Homer with Multiple Senses''
**''Attic Diction''
**''Lexicon of [[Antimachus]] and [[Heracleon]]''
* [[Zenobia]] (c. 240 – c. 274)
** Epitome of the history of Alexandria and the Orient (according to the ''[[Historia Augusta]]'')
* [[Gaius Asinius Quadratus]] (fl. AD 248)
**''The Millennium'', a thousand-year history of Rome; thirty fragments remain
* [[Sulpicius Alexander]] (late fourth century AD)
** ''Historia'' (History)

====Unnamed works====
* Lost plays of [[Aeschylus]]. He is believed to have written some 90 plays, of which six survive. A seventh play is attributed to him. Fragments of his play ''Achilleis'' were said to have been discovered in the wrappings of a [[mummy]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3269965.stm | work=BBC News | title=Play revived using mummy extracts | date=14 November 2003 | access-date=4 April 2010}}</ref>
* Lost plays of [[Agathon]]. None of these survive.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agathon|title=Agathon|website=www.britannica.com|access-date=January 13, 2024}}</ref>
* Lost poems of [[Alcaeus of Mytilene]]. Of a reported ten scrolls, there exist only quotes and numerous fragments.
* Lost choral poems of [[Alcman]]. Of six books of choral lyrics that were known (ca. 50–60 hymns), only fragmentary quotations in other Greek authors were known until the discovery of a fragment in 1855, containing approximately 100 verses. In the 1960s, many more fragments were discovered and published from a dig at [[Oxyrhynchus]].
* Lost poems of [[Anacreon]]. Of the five books of lyrical pieces mentioned in the ''[[Suda]]'' and by [[Athenaeus]], only mere fragments collected from the citations of later writers now exist.
* Lost works of [[Anaximander]]. There are a few extant fragments of his works.
* Lost works of [[Apuleius]] in many genres, including a novel, ''Hermagoras'', as well as poetry, dialogues, hymns, and technical treatises on politics, dendrology, agriculture, medicine, natural history, astronomy, music, and arithmetic.
* Lost plays of [[Aristarchus of Tegea]]. Of 70 pieces, only the titles of three of his plays, with a single line of the text, have survived.
* Lost plays of [[Aristophanes]]. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of which survive.
* Lost works of [[Aristotle]]. It is believed that we have about one third of his original works.<ref>[[Jonathan Barnes]], "Life and Work" in ''The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle'' (1995), p. 9.</ref>
* Lost work of [[Aristoxenus]]. He is said to have written 453 works, dealing with philosophy, ethics and music. His only extant work is ''Elements of Harmony''.
* Lost works of the historian [[Arrian]].
* Lost works of [[Callimachus]]. Of about 800 works, in verse and prose; only six hymns, 64 epigrams and some fragments survive; a considerable fragment of the epic ''[[Hecale]]'', was discovered in the Rainer papyri.
* Lost works of [[Chrysippus]]. Of over 700 written works, none survive, except a few fragments embedded in the works of later authors.
* Lost works of [[Cicero]]. Of his books, six on rhetoric have survived, and parts of seven on philosophy. Books 1–3 of his work ''[[De re publica]]'' have survived mostly intact, as well as a substantial part of book 6. A dialogue on philosophy called ''[[Hortensius (Cicero)|Hortensius]]'', which was highly influential on [[St. Augustine|Augustine of Hippo]], is lost. Part of ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' is lost.
* Lost works of [[Cleopatra]] including books on medicine, charms, and cosmetics (according to the historian [[Al-Masudi]]).
* Lost works of [[Clitomachus (philosopher)|Clitomachus]]. According to [[Diogenes Laërtius]], he wrote some 400 books, of which none are extant today, although a few titles are known.
* Lost plays of [[Cratinus]]. Only fragments of his works have been preserved.
* Lost works of [[Democritus]]. He wrote extensively on natural philosophy and ethics, of which little remains.
* Lost works of [[Diogenes of Sinope]]. He is reported to have written several books, none of which has survived to the present date. Whether or not these books were actually his writings or attributions are in dispute.
* Lost works of [[Diphilus]]. He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of 50 of which are preserved.
* Lost works of [[Ennius]]. Only fragments of his works survive.
* Lost works of [[Enoch (ancestor of Noah)|Enoch]]. According to the [[Second Book of Enoch]], the prophet wrote 360 manuscripts.<ref>{{cite book |author=Rutherford Platt|author-link=Rutherford Platt |title=[[The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden]] |date=1926}} Entry: [https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe130.htm The Book of the Secrets of Enoch XXIII]</ref>
* Lost works of [[Empedocles]]. Little of what he wrote survives today.
* Lost plays of [[Epicharmus of Kos]]. He wrote between 35 and 52 comedies, many of which have been lost or exist only in fragments.
* Lost plays of [[Euripides]]. He is believed to have written over 90 plays, 18 of which have survived. Fragments, some substantial, of most other plays also survive.
* Lost plays of [[Eupolis]]. Of the 17 plays attributed to him, only fragments remain.
* Lost works of [[Heraclitus]]. His writings only survive in fragments quoted by other authors.
* Lost works of [[Hippasus]]. Few of his original works now survive.
* Lost works of [[Hippias]]. He is credited with an excellent work on Homer, collections of Greek and foreign literature, and archaeological treatises, but nothing remains except the barest notes.
* Lost orations of [[Hyperides]]. Some 79 speeches were transmitted in his name in antiquity. A codex of his speeches was seen at Buda in 1525 in the library of King [[Matthias Corvinus]] of Hungary, but was destroyed by the Turks in 1526. In 2002, Natalie Tchernetska of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] discovered and identified fragments of two speeches of Hyperides that have been considered lost, ''Against Timandros'' and ''Against Diondas''. Six other orations survive in whole or part.
* Lost poems of [[Ibycus]]. According to the ''[[Suda]]'', he wrote seven books of lyrics.
* Lost plays of [[Ion of Chios]]. Variously stated to have written 12 to 40 tragedies during his lifetime with only the titles and fragments of 11 of these plays survive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theoi.com/Text/ListTragedians.html#Ion|title=Ion of Chios|website=www.Theoi.com|access-date= August 4, 2024}}</ref>
* Lost works of [[Juba II]]. He wrote a number of books in Greek and Latin on history, natural history, geography, grammar, painting and theatre. Only fragments of his work survive.
* Lost works of [[Leucippus]]. No writings exist which we can attribute to him.
* Lost works of [[Lucius Varius Rufus]]. The author of the poem ''De morte'' and the tragedy ''Thyestes'' praised by his contemporaries as being on a par with the best Greek poets. Only fragments survive.
* Lost works of [[Melissus of Samos]]. Only fragments preserved in other writers' works exist.
* Lost plays of [[Menander]]. He wrote over a hundred comedies of which one survives. Fragments of a number of his plays survive.
* Lost poems of [[Phanocles]]. He wrote some poems about homosexual relationships among heroes of the mythical tradition of which only one survives, along with a few short fragments.
* Lost works of [[Philemon (poet)|Philemon]]. Of his 97 works, 57 are known to us only as titles and fragments.
* Lost poetry of [[Pindar]]. Of his varied books of poetry, only his victory odes survive in complete form. The rest are known only by quotations in other works or papyrus scraps unearthed in Egypt.
* Lost plays of [[Plautus]]. He wrote approximately 130 plays, of which 21 survive.
* Lost poems and orations of [[Pliny the Younger]].
* Rhetorical works of [[Julius Pollux]].
* There exists [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_works.htm a list] of more than 60 lost works in many genres by the philosopher [[Porphyry (philosopher)|Porphyry]], including ''Against the Christians'' (of which only fragments survive).
* Lost works of [[Posidonius]]. All of his works are now lost. Some fragments exist, as well as titles and subjects of many of his books.<ref>[http://assets.cambridge.org/052160/4419/toc/0521604419_toc.pdf]</ref>
* Lost works of [[Proclus]]. A number of his commentaries on [[Plato]] are lost.
* Lost works of [[Pyrrhus of Epirus|Pyrrhus]]. He wrote ''Memoirs'' and several books on the art of war, all now lost. According to Plutarch, Hannibal was influenced by them and they received praise from Cicero.
* Lost works of [[Pythagoras]]. No texts by him survived.
* Lost works of Pythangelus. Cited as a tragic poet in Aristophanes play [[The Frogs]] though little is known about his existence and none of his work survives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aristophanes|date=405|title=[[The Frogs]]}}</ref>
* Lost plays of [[Rhinthon]]. Of 38 plays, only a few titles and lines have been preserved.
* Lost poems of [[Sappho]]. Only a few full poems and fragments of others survive. It has been hypothesized that poems [[Catullus 61|61]] and [[Catullus 62|62]] of [[Catullus]] were inspired by lost works of Sappho.
* Lost poems of [[Simonides of Ceos]]. Of his poetry we possess two or three short elegies, several epigrams and about 90 fragments of lyric poetry.
* Lost plays of [[Sophocles]]. Of 123 plays, seven survive, with fragments of others.
* Lost poems of [[Sulpicia (satirist)|Sulpicia]], who wrote erotic poems of conjugal bliss and was herself the subject of two poems by [[Martial]], who wrote (10.35) that "All girls who desire to please one man should read Sulpicia. All husbands who desire to please one wife should read Sulpicia."
* Lost poems of [[Stesichorus]]. Of several long works, significant fragments survive.
* Lost works of [[Theodectes]]. Of his 50 tragedies, we have the names of about 13 and a few unimportant fragments. His treatise on the art of rhetoric and his speeches are lost.
* Lost works of [[Theophrastus]]. Of his 227 books, only a handful survive, including ''On Plants'' and ''On Stones'', but ''On Mining'' is lost. Fragments of others survive.
* Lost plays of [[Thespis]]. None of his works survive.
* Lost works of [[Timon (philosopher)|Timon]]. None of his works survive except where he is quoted by others, mainly [[Sextus Empiricus]].
* Lost works of [[Marcus Tullius Tiro|Tiro]]. A biography of [[Cicero]] in at least four books is referenced by [[Asconius Pedianus]] in his commentaries on Cicero's speeches.<ref>Asconius Pedianus, ''In Milone'' 38</ref>
* Lost plays of [[Xenocles]]. Referenced various times in the works of [[Aristophanes]] as an inferior poet and had won first place in the Dionysia in 415 BC though none of his works survive.<ref name="auto"/>
* Lost works of [[Xenophanes]]. Fragments of his poetry survive only as quotations by later Greek writers.
* Lost works of [[Zeno of Elea]]. None of his works survive intact.
* Lost works of [[Zeno of Citium]]. None of his writings have survived except as fragmentary quotations preserved by later writers.