Papias of Hierapolis is an early second-century Christian commentator whose five-volume work of Exposition of Dominical Oracles has unfortunately been almost completely lost, aside from quotations by later authors. Due to his antiquity and his apparent comments about the origins of the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, most of the scholarly attention has naturally focused on Papias’s relation to the New Testament. This paper, however, turns attention from Papias looking backwards to Papias looking forwards, building on my work on a new edition of the fragments of Papias for the Oxford Early Christian Texts series with the most complete set of testimonia to date (over seventy). More specifically, this paper looks at how Papias was received as an author in his own right by authors ranging from the second to the fifteenth century, focusing in particular on his reception as a chiliast, gospel commentator, student of John, and a teller of gruesome tales about Judas the traitor.