A companion to late antique literature

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.