Lost work

A lost book is a book whose existence opens up only of secondary traditions. So it is no longer available or is only fragmentary. Reasons for this may be library fires, the age, but also the burning of books or other books exterminations.

Examples are the end of the Library of Alexandria, or the extensive book losses in late antiquity. By tradition, loss of ancient Greek and Latin literature, the number of surviving plants is extremely low. But later there was destruction, for example as a result of ecclesiastical prohibitions or books during the Thirty Years' War.

• 2.1 5th century
• 2.2 6th century
• 2.3 17th century

Losses before our era

7th century

Alcman: Six books chorlyrischer seal ( about 50-60 songs)

4th century

Pytheas: Across the ocean ( altgr. Περὶ τοῦ Ωκεανοῦ, Peri tou Okeanoú )

3rd century

Timaeus of Tauromenion: Histories

2nd century

Polybius: Historiai, Book 6-40

1st century

Marcus Flaccus Verrius: De verborum significatu Publius Ovidius Naso: Medea

Losses after our era

Dio: Getica

5th century

Ablavius ​​: History of the Goths Renatus Profuturus Frieridus: Historiae Sulpicius Alexander: Historia

6th century

Cassiodorus: Historia Gothorum

17th Century

Cyriacus Spangenberg: Mansfeld Chronica, Part 2