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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

45 Lost Books



-          A luxury edition of the Iliad, prepared by Aristotle. Alexander the Great took it with him on all of his travels. 

-          Aethiopis and Sack of Troy, by Arctinus of Miletus. A continuation of the Iliad.

-          Homer’s Margites

-          Ctesibius’ Memorabilia. A compilation of his research.

-          On Mechanical Toys and Diversions (Automatopoeica), by Philo of Byzantium

-          On the Ocean, by Pytheas of Massalia

-          An account of Alexander’s expedition, by Callisthenes

-          Origins (Origines), a history of Rome, by Cato the Elder. The first prose history in Latin. 

-          Rerum memoria dignarum libri, an encyclopaedic work by Verrius Flaccus.

-          De vita sua, by Augustus

-          Historical Sketches, by Strabo 

-          History of Babylonia (Babyloniaca), by Berossus. Written ca. 290-278 BC, using ancient Babylonian texts. 

-          On Rome (Roma), in 4 parts: Roman Manners and Customs, The Roman Year, The Roman Festivals & Roman Dress by Suetonius.

-          Iter ('The Journey') by  Julius Caesar. It was composed during a trip from Rome to Spain (46 BC).

-          Pamphilus of Alexandria’s comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.

-           De Bibliotecis, by Marcus Terentius Varro
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-          Medea, by Ovid
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-          Republic, by Zeno of Citium

-          An Etruscan dictionary & an Etruscan history, by Claudius

-          A Carthaginian history, by Claudius

-          Affairs in Asia, Affairs in Europe & On the Erythraean Sea, by Agatharchides

-          Geographica, by Eratosthenes
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-          The Lives of Scipio Africanus, Augustus, Claudius and Nero, by Plutarch 

-          History of Constantine the Great, by Praxagoras

-          History of the German Wars & History of his Times, by Pliny the Elder

-          Catalogue of Women, by Hesiod 

-          Persica & Indica, by Ctesias. A history of Assyria, Persia and India.

-          On the Causes of Corrupted Eloquence, by Quintilian

-          De arte alea (a book on dice games), by Claudius

-          Critical Signs Used in Books, by Suetonius

-          Women Swimming (Kolymbôsai), by Alcman 

-          Euclid’s Book of Fallacies (Pseudaria)

-          Frying-Pan Men, by Aristophanes 

-          Men Who See Everything, by Eubulus 

-          Women Sailing Across the Sea,  by Alexis 

-          De jaculatione equestri, by Pliny the Elder 

      Titanomachy
  

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

8 Highly Original Books of the Eighteenth Century




Niels Kilm’s Underground Travels (Nicolai Klimiii Iter Subterraneum), by Ludvig Holberg, 1741.
 
Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred, (L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais), by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, 1771. http://bit.ly/18eGenw

Giphantie (or a view of what has passed, what is now passing, and, during the present century, what will pass in the World), by Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche, 1760. http://bit.ly/YWiTEl
 
Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere by a Flying-Man Or, a French Dedalus (A Philosophical Novella) & Letter from a Monkey (La Découverte australe par un homme volant, ou Le Dédale français, nouvelle très philosophique, suivie de la Lettre d'un singe), by Restif de la Bretonne, 1781.
http://bit.ly/11UvTOV

Voyage around my Room (Voyage autour de ma chambre), by Xavier de Maistre, 1790.

The Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Aleksander Nilolayevich Radishchev, 1790.

Siebenkäs, by Jean Paul, 1796-97. http://amzn.to/10JAlbC

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker, by Charles Brockden Brown, 1799.