In December (12-14/12/2018), two of our colleagues, Olivier Demerre and Benjamin De Vos, were in Leuven in order to polemicize, to compete and to network on the occasion of the 8th LECTIO-conference about ‘Polemics, Rivalry, and Networking in Greco-Roman Antiquity’. (http://lectio.ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/conferences)