Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Part One Late Antique Literature by Language and Tradition; Introduction; Chapter One Greek; References; Chapter Two Latin; 2.1 Panegyric and Secular Oratory; 2.2 Sermons; 2.3 Philosophy; 2.4 Secular Verse; 2.5 Religious Verse; 2.6 Letter Writing; 2.7 History Writing; 2.8 Christian History and Hagiography; References; Chapter Three Syriac; 3.1 Biblical Commentary; 3.2 Poetry; 3.3 Theology; 3.4 Biography and Hagiography; 3.5 Rhetoric and Epistolography; 3.6 Historiography; 3.7 Philosophy and Translation; References.

Chapter Four Coptic4.1 The Problems of "Coptic Literature" and its History; 4.2 Translation and the Origins of Coptic Literature; 4.3 Original Coptic Literature: From Pachomius and Shenoute to the Muslim Conquest; References; Chapter Five Armenian; 5.1 Ecclesiastical and Theological Works in Prose; 5.2 Historians; References; Chapter Six Georgian; 6.1 Earliest Original Georgian Literature: Hagiography; 6.2 Christian Kʻartʻli and the Iranian Commonwealth; 6.3 Conversion Stories and Acculturating Parthians; 6.4 The Dawn of Georgian Historiography: Hambavi mepʻet ʻa.

6.5 Christian History in Iranic ColorsReferences; Chapter Seven Middle Persian (Pahlavi); 7.1 Commentary on the Avesta; 7.2 Philosophical and Debate Texts; 7.3 Apocalyptic and Visionary Texts; 7.4 Didactic Texts; 7.5 Geographical and Epic Texts; 7.6 Legal Texts; 7.7 Cultural Texts; 7.8 Dictionaries; 7.9 Christian and Manichaean Literature in Middle Persian; 7.10 Pahlavi Literature in Contact with Greek and Sanskrit Literature and Islam; 7.11 Conclusion; References; Chapter Eight Languages of Arabia; References; Part Two Literary Forms; Chapter Nine Classicizing History and Historical Epitomes.

Chapter Fourteen Epic Poetry14.1 Greek Epic; 14.2 Latin Epic; References; Chapter Fifteen Epigrams, Occasional Poetry, and Poetic Games; References; Chapter Sixteen Christian Poetry; 16.1 Greek Christian Poetry; 16.2 Latin Christian Poetry; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter Seventeen Prosimetra; 17.1 Introduction; 17.2 Popular Origins of Mixed-Meter Satire; 17.3 The Extraordinary Verses of Consolation; 17.4 Literary Shifts in the Second Century; 17.5 The Evidence of Sympotic Literature; 17.6 Conclusion: Two Pre-Boethian, Two Post-Boethian Traditions; Acknowledgment; References.