This group investigates the reception of Classical Greek literature in the “long late antiquity” (150-750 CE) and further into the Byzantine era. Members carry out research in a variety of genres including epic poetry (both mythological and biblical), rhetoric (especially panegyric and declamation), philosophy (especially Neoplatonic authors), historiography, and the novel. Some members are currently working on a project funded by the FCT, which explores the afterlife of the Homeric Achilles in an extensive corpus of largely understudied texts dating from the 2nd to the 6th centuries CE.