Introduction. Walking the wire. Towards an inclusive approach to Latin and Greek late antique poetry Berenice Verhelst and Tine Scheijnen; Part I: 1. Rivaling song-contests and alternative Typhonomachies in Ovid and Nonnus: revisiting the issue of Latin influence on Greek poetry in Late Antiquity Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou; 2. Greek and Roman epigrammatists in the later imperial period: Ausonius and Palladas in dialogue with the classical past Silvio Bär; 3. Allusion and referentiality in late antique epic Calum Maciver; 4. Speaking from the margins: paratexts in Greek and Latin poetry Aaron Pelttari; Part II: 5. The implosion of poetic genre in Late Antiquity Helen Kaufmann; 6. Common texts, (un)common aesthetics: the Greek and Latin cento in dialogue Brian Sowers; 7. A 'revival' of the 'epyllion' as a 'genre'? Genre awareness in short epic narrative from Late Antiquity Berenice Verhelst; Part III: 8. Saying the other. The poetics of personification in late antique epic Emma Greensmith; 9. Internal audiences in the New Testament epics of Juvencus and Nonnus Laura Miguélez-Cavero; 10. Colluthus and Dracontius: mythical traditions and innovations Marcelina Gilka; 11. Objects of the lusting gaze: viewing women as works of art in late antique poetry Sophie Schoess; 12. Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic Philip Hardie.