Missing Episode/Literature: Difference between revisions

* For certain values of "episode", this trope is known to be [[Older Than Dirt]]: many ancient masterpieces of literature are lost forever, and many others are missing chunks of text due to physical deterioration. We know of a relatively small number from quotations or references in other literature of antiquity.

** One well known example of lost literature: [[Sappho (Creator)|Sappho]]'s poems, the vast majority of which are simply lost to history (read: out of nine volumes of poetry, exactly ''one'' complete poem has survived.)