This book is the result of an international symposium held in 2021 at the Faculty of Arts of Sorbonne University, on the tenth anniversary of the death of Professor Jacqueline Dangel. It brought together specialists in Greek and Latin literature to discuss the representations of the reader in ancient poetry.The various articles collected here focus on the presence of the reader and his relationship with the author, as well as their impact on the text itself, questioning the relevance to ancient corpora of certain concepts defined by Umberto Eco and the Constance school. They explore the multiple faces of the “empirical reader”, the inscription in the poem of the confrontation between this empirical reader and the “model reader”, the dialectic that governs the relationship between the poet and the reader when the latter is involved by the former in the creative process, the particular position of the reader in performances (theatre, recitations) which, for the Ancients, constitute forms of reading, and the status of the female reader, who may be represented by a male or female author. These questions challenge theories of reception of works borrowed from various chronocultural eras, from archaic and classical Greece to late Latin culture, including classical and imperial Latin culture, and a glimpse into neo-Latin culture.