Lost Works

The Epic Cycle

Creation Narratives and Sacred Origins

Floods, Kings, and Foundational Myths Across Cultures

Archaic Lyric Traditions

Pindar and Choral Poetics

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripides

Aristophanes

Menander and New Comedy

Lost Plays and Dramatic Fragments

Xenophon

Polybius

Diodorus Siculus

Plutarch

Egyptian and Near Eastern Historical Witnesses

The Presocratics

Socrates in the Sources

Aristotle

Cynics

Stoics

Epicureans

Skeptics

Platonist Afterlives and Transitional Traditions

Lost Philosophical Books and Witnesses

Callimachus — *Aetia*

Callimachus — *Hecale*

Callimachus — *Iambi*

Callimachus — *Pinakes*

Nicander — *Georgica/Heteroeumena*

Euphorion `[F]`, Rhianus `[F]`, Herodas — *Mimiambi*

Posidippus — Milan papyrus epigrams

Meleager — *Garland*

Epicurus — *Kuriai Doxai*

Epicurus — *On Nature* (Herculaneum)

Zeno of Citium `[L]`, Chrysippus (~700 titles) `[L]`, Cleanthes — *Hymn to Zeus*

Posidonius — *Histories* etc.

Pyrrho

Timon — *Silloi*

Porphyry — *Against the Christians*

Theophrastus — + philosophy

Theophrastus — Strato of Lampsacus

Antiochus of Ascalon

Antiochus of Ascalon — Numenius of Apamea

Euclid — *Porisms/Conics/Pseudaria/Surface Loci*

Archimedes — *Cattle Problem*

Apollonius of Perga — V–VII

Apollonius of Perga — VIII

Apollonius of Perga — *Tangencies/Plane Loci/Vergings*

Diophantus — *Arithmetica*

Diophantus — *On Polygonal Numbers*

Hero of Alexandria — *Mechanica*

Pappus — *Synagoge*

Pappus — Hypatia

Aristarchus — heliocentric arguments

Hipparchus — precession works

Ptolemy — *Optics*

Eratosthenes — *Geographika*

Eratosthenes — *Catasterismi*

Eratosthenes — *Chronographiai*

Menelaus — *Sphaerica*

Antikythera Mechanism — associated manuals

Herophilus of Chalcedon

Herophilus of Chalcedon — Erasistratus of Ceos

Soranus — Rufus of Ephesus

Celsus — Andreas of Carystus

Bolus of Mendes — *Physika*

Antigonos of Carystos — *Mirabilia*

Diocles of Carystus

Ctesibius — all writings

Philo of Byzantium — *Pneumatica*

Hero — *Cheiroballistra*

Vitruvius — Agesistratus

Zenodotus — Homeric editions

Aristophanes of Byzantium — *On Analogia*

Aristarchus of Samothrace — editions

Didymus Chalcenterus — *On Demosthenes* + Homer

Herodian — *General Prosody*

Tryphon of Alexandria

Dionysius of Halicarnassus — *Roman Antiquities*

Arrian — *Successors*

Appian — *Roman History*

Cassius Dio — *Roman History*

Eusebius — *Chronicle*

Orphic Hymns , Orphic Argonautica , Derveni Papyrus — Derveni Papyrus

Sibylline Oracles — Chaldaean Oracles

Manetho — *Aegyptiaca*

Berossus — *Babyloniaca*

Sanchuniathon → Philo of Byblos — *Phoenician History*

Menander of Ephesus — Tyrian king list

*Epic of Gilgamesh* , *Enuma Elish* , *Atrahasis* — *Epic of Gilgamesh*

*Epic of Gilgamesh* , *Enuma Elish* , *Atrahasis* — *Atrahasis*

Demotic Chronicle

Demotic Chronicle — Potter's Oracle

Hecataeus of Abdera — *Aegyptiaca*

Hecataeus of Abdera — Artapanus

Callimachus — *Pinakes* (120 vols.)

Callimachus — *On Names of Peoples*

Aristophanes of Byzantium — *Pinax*

Hesychius of Miletus — *Onomatologos*

Varro — *De Bibliothecis*

Cicero — *Academica*

Cicero — *Hortensius*

Varro — *Antiquitates*

Livy — *Ab Urbe Condita*

Oxyrhynchus Papyri (~5,000 texts) — 000 texts)

Herculaneum Papyri / Philodemus library (*On Music*, *On Poems*, *On Piety*, *On the Good King*) — *On the Good King*)

Derveni Papyrus

Derveni Papyrus — Milan Posidippus Papyrus

Derveni Papyrus — Cologne Mani Codex

Rylands P52 (earliest John fragment)

Bacchylides odes (Brit. Mus.)

Menander — Hyperides speeches

Menander — Isocrates papyri