1. Text and Paratext 1.1. Exegetical Activity from Its Origins to Late Antiquity 1.2. The Middle Byzantine Period 2. The Beautiful Eight 2.1. The Reception of Homer, 6th–13th Centuries CE 2.2. The Reception of Hellenistic Poetry between the Late Twelfth Century and the Early Palaeologan Era 2.3. Callimachus and the Humanist Reception of Hellenistic Poetry 3. The Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana