{
 "declared_absence": "Hypatia of Alexandria — a declared absence: the lost works named, and the witnesses in which her work and her life survive",
 "kind": "lost",
 "rights": "No rights holder: the works are lost, or survive only inside other authors' texts, where the attribution is a scholarly judgment.",
 "works": [
  {
   "author": "Hypatia",
   "title": "Commentary on Diophantus, Arithmetica",
   "first_publisher": "attributed by the Suda; the Greek books I–VI of the Arithmetica and the four books in Arabic are argued by some scholars to carry it",
   "first_published": null,
   "opens": "lost or embedded"
  },
  {
   "author": "Hypatia",
   "title": "Commentary on Apollonius of Perga, Conics",
   "first_publisher": "attributed by the Suda",
   "first_published": null,
   "opens": "lost"
  },
  {
   "author": "Hypatia",
   "title": "Astronomical Canon",
   "first_publisher": "attributed by the Suda; either an edition of Ptolemy's Handy Tables or a commentary on the Almagest",
   "first_published": null,
   "opens": "lost"
  },
  {
   "author": "Hypatia",
   "title": "Ptolemy, Almagest III, the revised text",
   "first_publisher": "credited in the heading of Theon's commentary on Book III",
   "first_published": null,
   "opens": "embedded in the Almagest as transmitted"
  }
 ],
 "wanted": "Wanted, and open: Synesius of Cyrene's letters to and about her, in Greek (seven to her survive, none of hers to him); Socrates Scholasticus, Historia ecclesiastica VII.15; the Suda (Υ 166), with Damascius' Life of Isidore as it carries; Philostorgius and Hesychius as quoted; John of Nikiu's chronicle, in Ge'ez; the heading of Theon's commentary on Almagest III; Diophantus' Arithmetica in Tannery's edition (1893–1895). QUEUED.",
 "on_the_shelf": "Beside the shelf's Greek mathematics and philosophy: Euclid (20/04), Plato (01/08), Aristotle (04/01), Plotinus (04/02).",
 "note": "This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice."
}