With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages.

Table of Contents

• Late Antique Literature by Language and Tradition
• Introduction
• Greek
• Latin
• Syriac
• Coptic
• Armenian
• Georgian
• Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
• Languages of Arabia
• Literary Forms
• Classicizing History and Historical Epitomes
• Ecclesiastical History
• Chronicles
• Epideictic Oratory
• Panegyric
• Epic Poetry
• Epigrams, Occasional Poetry, and Poetic Games
• Christian Poetry
• Prosimetra
• Philosophical Commentary
• Biblical Commentary
• Christian Theological Literature
• Sermons
• Travel and Pilgrimage Literature
• Biography, Autobiography, and Hagiography
• Epistolography
• Pseudepigraphy
• Legal Texts
• Handbooks, Epitomes, and Florilegia
• Grammar
• School Texts
• Literature of Knowledge
• Inscriptions
• Translation
• Antiquarian Literature
• Reception
• Late Antique Literature in Byzantium
• The Arabic Reception of Late Antique Literature
• Late Antique Literature in the Western Middle Ages
• Early Modern Receptions of Late Ancient Literature
• Edward Gibbon and Late Antique Literature
• Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Visions of Late Antique Literature