The workshop brings together world-leading researchers in the fields of early Greek, Babylonian, Sanskrit, Tocharian, Medieval Latin and Celtic philology to kick-off an interdisciplinary conversation about the historical significance of textual variants in pre-modern poetic traditions. The workshop explores the state of the debate in distant fields which confront similar questions, but offer distinct evidentiary bases to assess them. The workshop is generously sponsored by the Wiener Humanistische Gesellschaft, the Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, and the Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät in the University of Vienna.