Works
The great work of Pappus, in eight books and titled Synagoge or Collection, we possess only in an incomplete form, the first book being lost, and the rest having suffered considerably. The Suda enumerates other works of Pappus: Χωρογραφια οἰκουμενική (Chorography oikoumenike or Description of the Inhabited World), commentary on the 4 books of Ptolemy's Almagest, Ποταμοὺς τοὺς ἐν Λιβύῃ (The Rivers in Libya), and Ὀνειροκριτικά (The Interpretation of Dreams). Pappus himself mentions another commentary of his own on the Ἀνάλημμα (Analemma) of Diodorus of Alexandria. Pappus also wrote commentaries on Euclid's Elements (of which fragments are preserved in Proclus and the Scholia, while that on the tenth Book has been found in an Arabic manuscript), and on Ptolemy's Ἁρμονικά (Harmonika).
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