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Anonymous Mon Feb 17 20:28:45 2020 No.14744182 [Reply] [Original]

which lost work do you wish you could save from oblivion?
>Cicero - Consolatio

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 20:34:07 2020 No.14744207 Surely the rest of the epic cycle from the Trojan war

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 20:50:30 2020 No.14744257 >>14744207 This, or Aristotle's lost dialogues. The lost plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus are strong contenders, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 21:11:46 2020 No.14744336 Cardenio. How the fuck did The Bard receive the Spainard?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 23:46:26 2020 No.14745141 >>14744182 Religious texts from Babylon Books from the library at Alexandria before it burned down

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 23:48:39 2020 No.14745147 >>14744182 The Biography of Agripinna the Younger

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 17 23:49:41 2020 No.14745152 >>14745147 *autobiography

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 00:06:37 2020 No.14745231 >>14744182 Whatever the Diomedes version of The Odyssey was called.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 00:21:33 2020 No.14745315 Death by Starvation - Hegesias

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 00:30:14 2020 No.14745350 >>14744207 fpbp Posthomerica is good, but it isn't the same.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 00:35:10 2020 No.14745380 Adversus Christianos, but other anti-Christian works from the 1st-5th centuries would also be quite welcome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 00:53:05 2020 No.14745450 >>14744182 This, also the Hortensius.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:09:18 2020 No.14745507 >>14744182 Ovids first plays

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:10:34 2020 No.14745512 >>14744182 Mainly the religious and magical scrolls that were lost in the great library of Alexandria after Caesar and the Christians did a number to it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:11:32 2020 No.14745516 >>14744182 Socrates' secrete diary he never published since he didnt want to be called a hypocrite. I want to see the actual difference between socrates socrates, and plato socrates.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:12:24 2020 No.14745520 >>14744207 I heard it wasn't preserved because it wasn't as good

Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:15:22 2020 No.14745535

>>14745141
This ... Goodness, imagine the breadth and scope of what was in there. In fact, even the extant works we have if anyone from ancient times is astonishing
>>14744182
Yes I wish we had Cicero's work that changed Augustine's life. Seems like it was really profound

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:18:40 2020 No.14745546 >>14744182 honestly i think more of them should be destroyed

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 18 01:20:53 2020 No.14745554 >>14744182 De Arte Aleae

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