My current research involves the loss and rediscovery of Jewish and Christian scriptures, with a focus on the years between roughly 1870 and 1940. However, my next few blogposts are going to explore these themes of “lost and found” much more broadly and cross-culturally, before circling back round to that Biblical/Scriptural focus. I think the themes that emerge are really enlightening in many areas. So today, I will begin far away from the Christian world, in the deepest foundations of the Classical tradition.There follows an excellent overview of lost Greek Classical epics known from references in later literature, with a sideline of lost plays by some of the great Classical playwrights.
You can read what we know about many of the lost epics and a little on the lost plays in the work of the Hellenistic-era mythographer (Pseudo-?) Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology. The Suda gives more fulsome information on the lost plays.
I look forward to Professor Jenkins's promised further posts on Lost Books.
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