Editing Lost literary work (section)

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* 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.