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** ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]'' and ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]'' were originally just two of eight poems that made up the [[Trojan Cycle (Literature)|Trojan Cycle]] telling the story of the Trojan War. The other six, which were not attributed to [[Homer]], are all lost. However, it is possible to deduce the contents of the other poems through a number of summaries, excerpts and references in extant works.

*** Said lost works include many of the most widely-known episodes of the whole saga. For example, [[Achilles Heel|Achilles' death]] and the building of the [[Trojan Horse]] happen after the events of the ''Iliad'', and were recounted in the ''Aethiopis'' and the ''Little Iliad'' respectively. The fall of Troy is the subject of the ''Iliou Persis'' ([[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Greek for "The Sack of Ilion")]].

*** A particularly scary hypothesis on the destruction of the Library's contents claims that the works of [[Aristotle (Creator)|Aristotle]], [[Plato]], Sappho, Alceus and many more were used to heat the baths in the city for months after the Library was ransacked. Luckily (or not) it's more widely accepted that most of the work in the Library was lost simply due to negligence during what was a politically disastrous time.

* The never-published (but still canon) ''[[Bionicle]]'' book, ''Invasion'', which was eventually lost forever after Greg Farshtey's computer died.

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