Lost Works in Popular Culture
- Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose features a murder mystery whose solution hinges on the contents of Aristotle's lost second book of Poetics (dealing with comedy).
- Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code builds its central theme around a fictional account of the apochryphal and partially lost Gnostic Gospels.
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