This course focuses on Latin and Greek poetry of late antiquity (c. 300 to c. 700 CE), its major genres (biblical epic, panegyric, hymnody, epigram) and the continuities with earlier classical and later medieval literature. Students will be introduced to the principal authors of the period (e.g., Proba, Prudentius, Nonnus, Eudocia, Venantius Fortunatus, Paul the Silentiary, Columbanus, Aldhelm, Agathias) and to trends in recent scholarship on late antique poetry.