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 have recently worked together on a project funded by FCT, which explored the afterlife of the Homeric Achilles in an extensive corpus of largely understudied texts dating from the 2nd to the 6th centuries CE. Members are also interested in the religious life of late antiquity, in particular the diverse phenomena (both social and literary) associated with the Christianisation of the Roman Empire.