The writes of passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus' Aethiopica / Tim Whitmarsh -- Gender and identity in Musaeus' Hero and Leander / Helen Morales -- Prudentius' Psychomachia: the Christian arena and the politics of display / Paula James -- Dramatic identities: tragedy in late antiquity / Pat Easterling and Richard Miles -- Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians / Gillian Clark -- Autobiographical identity and philosophical past in Augustine's dialogue De Libero Arbitrio / Simon Harrison