PrefaceIntroduction Paolo F. Sacchi and Marco Formisano (Ghent University, Belgium)I. Epitomic Dimensions1. Pascal Quignard’s Little Treatises: (Anti)odern Epitomes? Irena Kristeva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)2. Ausonius Epitomist: Encyclopaedism and Ordering Knowledge in Late Antique Gaul Brian P. Sowers (City University of New York, USA)3. Cato Capitulatim: Nepos the Censor Jared Hudson (Harvard University, USA)4. Epitome and Its Surroundings Between Written and Figural Domain Paolo Liverani (University of Florence, Italy)5. Sarcinatorem esse summum: Nonius Marcellus and the Modern Editor as Textual Frankensteins M. Payne (Leiden University, the Netherlands)II. From the All to the Fragments?6. The Dismembered Truth: Pentheus Dismembered as an Image of the Stromateis Antoine Paris (University of Paris-Sorbonne/ University of Montréal, France/Canada)7. Barthes' Dream at the Collège de France: From Critical Fragments to Literary Re-compositions Mohammad Reza Fallah Nejad (University of Ahvaz, Iran)III. Aenigma and Silence8. Epitomizing Silence: the Apophthegmata Patrum as an Impossible Encyclopaedia of Unknowing Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain)9. Dionysius’ Imaginary Library Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, USA)10. The Kaleidoscopic World of Symphosius’ Aenigmata Philip Hardie (Cambridge University, UK)IV. Materiality11. 'Disfigured' Writing? The Case of A. Artaud's 503 Notebooks Ana Kiffer (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio, Brazil)12. Visual Epitome in Late Antique Art Jas Elsner (University of Oxford, UK)V. From the Fragments to the All?13. The Aeneid More or Less: The Argumenta of the ‘Twelve Wise Men’ Scott McGill (Rice University, USA)14. A Stubborn Chronophobia. Re-composition, Time and Memory in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae and Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak Memory Tim Noens (Ghent Univeristy, Belgium)

In recent years, the Greek and Latin literature of late antiquity has become the object of significant rediscovery, in line with heightened interest in the history and arts of the Mediterranean at a crucial period in the history of the Roman Empire. And yet, as the very term suggests, late antique texts are still often considered an appendix to classical literature and interpreted in relation to that literature, which provides the aesthetic standard by default. This new series aims at challenging such paradigms by placing late antique literature at the centre of inquiry, and its title plays on the ambiguity of tela, evoking both the drawing of weapons and the building of a web. Late-antique literature becomes a vantage point for looking both forward to its reception and transformation in subsequent ages, and backward, by engaging in the new and exciting experiment of viewing classical literature through the lens of late antiquity. sera tela offers a laboratory for new ideas animated by interpretive enthusiasm and experimentalism aiming at highlighting what is new, unique, and unprecedented (rather than focussing on relationships with the classical past) and embracing new sets of theoretical approaches and hermeneutic tools deriving from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, cultural materialism, and ecocriticism, as well as post-human, queer, and media studies, among others. This series is a home for literary studies, but is also a transdisciplinary adventure that focuses on the novelty and radical otherness of late-antique literature and culture, denaturalizing 'lateness' and highlighting instead a productive sense of anachronicity and belatedness that characterizes literary works of this period. Finally, sera tela makes of late antiquity another antiquity through which contemporary readers might see reflected their own cultural anxieties around otherness.Editorial BoardVirginia Burrus, Syracuse University, USASimon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UKJesús Hernandez-Lobato, University of Salamanca, SpainRalph Hexter, University of California, Davis, USAIngela Nilsson, Uppsala University, SwedenPaolo Felice Sacchi, Ghent University, BelgiumCristiana Sogno, Fordham University, USAJames Uden, Boston University, USA