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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For #BannedBooksWeek, we're highlighting titles that scrutinize #censorship – from book burning in antiquity to ecclesiastical suppression in Renaissance Italy to censorship in colonial Indonesia. Many of the books are accessible #OpenAccess. Find them all on our website!

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Cicero, Leader of the Republic. Exemplary Statesmanship in Roman Historiography" is part of the series "Historiography of Rome and Its Empire" (vol. 22) Link to the book: 🔗 brill.com/display/titl... About the series: 🔗 brill.com/display/seri...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📚 New publication! In her book, Leanne Madelon Jansen challenges the image of Cicero as a failed statesman. On the contrary, historians portrayed him as an exemplary political figure, whose words and deeds became crucial to the historical reconstruction of the collapse of the Roman Republic.

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Connect with us in Frankfurt! This year, you'll find us in Hall 4.1 at Stand E92. Stop by from October 7–11 to have a chat, browse our books and take home some of our must-have merch. We can't wait to see you! @buchmesse.de #fbm25

Red visual reading: Visit us at Frankfurt Book Fair. 7–11 October 2026. Hall 4.1 Stand E92

Red visual showing new layout of halls in Frankfurt. Text: New location! Hall 4.1, Stand E92

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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨We are thrilled to announce the publication of the first printed volume of #WPR! 📖 “Cicero’s 'Academics' and Their Reception”, edited by Francesco Verde, is now available as the first independent commentary of the series, exploring one of the most influential works in the history of Platonism.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well spotted as usual, by Yale Classics Library: Vol. 71, No. 4 of "Phronesis" (2026) is now available. This issue has a strong focus on Aristotelian philosophy, and part of the content is available in Open Access. Enjoy! brill.com/view/journal...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📙Just published! "Themistius and the Power of Words", edited by Elisa Coda, examines Themistius as a philosopher, orator, and interpreter of Aristotle, tracing the broader impact of his thought across the intellectual landscape of Late Antiquity. Learn more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful place for a book exhibtion than at the 25th ICBS in Vienna (main building of the university)! We congratulate our author Sergio Basso on a fantastic book presentation and look forward to more wonderful conversations at our booth through Friday.

Interior of the University of Vienna with book exhibition

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come visit our booth at the annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Athens!

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In Vienna for the 25th International Congress of Byzantine Studies next week? Then join our author Sergio Basso, together with Paolo Cesaretti and Charis Messis, for the presentation of his book "Dynamics of Transmission of Barlaam and Ioasaph". See you there! www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Out! A new special issue of the Journal of Latin Linguistics: Argument structure alternations in Latin; Guest Editors: Jaume Mateu and Jesús de la Villa Journal of Latin Linguistics Vol. 25, No. 1 (2026) www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are books dangerous? Dangerous to whom, when and why? Going beyond usual discourses on canons, censorship, and book-burning, this edited volume reveals dangers posed by Latin texts, from antiquity to the Modern Age. You can read it OA...at your own risk!😇 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Of course we prefer Ovid’s explanation, and perhaps this is the perfect occasion to dust off your copy of the "Metamorphoses" and rediscover this masterpiece! www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/... Either way, we wish you a wonderful solar eclipse today!☀️🌑✨

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today, the sun will disappear for a moment. Ovid tells us why: it is not the Moon coming between the Earth and the Sun, but Apollo’s love for Leucothoe that makes him turn pale! «nec tibi quod lunae terris propioris imago obstiterit, palles; facit hunc amor iste colorem.» (Ov. Met. 4.200–203)

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Edited by Zara M. Torlone and Giampiero Scafoglio, the volume offers both an important contribution to Classical Reception scholarship and an engaging introduction for anyone interested in one of antiquity’s most influential literary figures. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fresh off the press! "Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Dido: The Queen of Carthage before, in, and after Virgil" brings together contributions from senior and junior scholars to examine the figure of Dido in Virgil's "Aeneid" and beyond.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The fascicles are already available in print paperback edition: • Fascicle XIII: robustus – rugio www.degruyterbrill.com/.../isbn/978... • Fascicle XIV: rugio – ryt- www.degruyterbrill.com/.../isbn/978... ...with 40% off during the Summer Sale!

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Curious about what the 2026 Latin Word of the Year will be? After "retotatototato" (the sound of a fanfare) in 2024 and "rhonchissātor" (a snorer) in 2025, the next winner hides among the entries of the newly published fascicles - XIII and XIV - of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Place your bets! 🎺

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🪲 A Bug's Life... but in the past. "Microhistories Retold: Insects in the Premodern World", edited by Przemysław Marciniak, explores how insects were observed, interpreted, and represented across cultures in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Brand new and OA! ⬇️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The #Odyssey is having a cinematic moment. Turn to us for scholarly insights into the original text, whether from Martin West's masterful critical edition, translations into German by eminent experts, or an award-winning study of #Homeric insults.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

NEW SERIES "COIMBRA STUDIES IN CLASSICS" LAUNCHED Series editor Carmen Soares presented in one of the CCC's plenary session the Coimbra Studies, co-edited by Delfim Leão and Douglas Cairns. All volumes will be in Open Access. For more information: www.brill.com/csic

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Another wonderful gathering at the CCC in Maynooth, where editors Berenice Verhelst and Christopher Forstall met with contributors to the volume on Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic: Martina Delucchi, Deborah Beck, and Patrick Burns. Available in Open Access ! brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here at the CCC in Maynooth, a great panel on Eunapius' World is ongoing. We were so glad to run into the scholars who made Eunapius' work accessible to the German speaking world: Bruno Bleckmann and Günther Martin. brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Look whom we met in Maynooth, at the Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC): Christopher Farrell, co-editor of the Brill Companion to the Reception of Xenophon. The book is one of the highlights on our display table. www.degruyterbrill.com/.../isbn/978... brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We landed in Maynooth, at the Celtic Conference in Classics! Drop by the booth for a chat and browse our latest titles. We look forward to speaking with you!

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

☘️ Maynooth, here we come! If you'll be at the Celtic Conference in Classics too: stop by the De Gruyter Brill booth, have a chat with our editors Mirjam and Carlo, and discover our latest publications. The newest Brill’s Companions will be there too! 📚 #CCC2026

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It was a great pleasure to attend the "Ständige Ägyptologenkonferenz" again, which took place this year in Leipzig at the “Fakultät für Sportwissenschaften”; many thanks to the organizers. After so many great meetings and conversations, we’re already looking forward to next year’s SÄK in Munich!

Interior View of the Faculty of Sports Science in Leipzig

Entrance of the Faculty of Sports Science in Leipzig

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Through philological, literary, and reception-oriented approaches, the volume offers fresh perspectives on character types, language, political engagement, and the diversity of Greek New Comedy. 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📚 Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes, no. 200: "Greek New Comedy Beyond Menander", edited by Virginia Mastellari, challenges the long-dominant “Menandrocentric” view on Greek New Comedy by turning to Menander’s contemporaries and the wider landscape of late-Classical and Hellenistic comedy.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉Let's celebrate: Niklas Holzberg, one of our most renowned and most productive authors and #Tusculum editor, is 80 years old today 🎊🎂 This is the perfect occasion to thank him for all his work and all his wonderful books. We are looking forward to many more to come - happy birthday, Niklas 🍾

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

📆Tomorrow, our author Alexandra Eckert will speak at a conference on Democracy taking place in Berlin: humanistische-hochschule-berlin.de/demokratie/ Her book on this topic will be out soon: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/... - we are very much looking forward to this new publication 🎉

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Online Live Webinar: 📅 30 June 2026 🕑 15:00 CEST / 14:00 BST 🎙️ Live demos + Q&A Our editors Mirjam Elbers and Carlo Vessella will guide you through the advanced search and cross-referencing functions of three De Gruyter Brill online resources for Classical Studies.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How can digital resources change the way we work with ancient texts? Join our live webinar on 30 June to discover how online resources can help classicists research, read, and explore ancient languages, texts and authors. Sign in here! marketing.degruyterbrill.com/ClassicsxDig...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Want to learn more about SGGO and other De Gruyter Brill Online Resources? Join our digital humanities webinar, “From Antiquity to the Digital Age,” on 30 June! 📝 Register here: marketing.degruyterbrill.com/Webinar_Onli... #Classics #DigitalHumanities

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

📣 The first update for Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum Online (SGGO) is live! Nearly 62,000 words of new content have been added, further expanding this collection of critical editions of testimonies and fragments of ancient Greek grammarians. 🔗Check out the update here: brill.com/display/db/s...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Through the modern terms “synchronicity” and “synchronization”, this volume explores how these ideas permeated ancient reflections on health and the cosmos, examining the efforts of ancient thinkers to align temporal cycles between body and environment, illness and therapy, and individual and world.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🔓 Out now and OA! "Synchronizing the Body in Ancient Medicine and Philosophy", edited by Giouli Korobili, Kassandra J. Miller and Philip J. van der Eijk. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📆Today, the Ausonius prize, awarded by the #UniTrier for excellent lifetime achievement in the field of Ancient History or Classics, will be presented to Prof. Bernhard Zimmermann, one of our most renowned authors and editors. Warmest congratulations, Bernhard 🎉

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

At the Ancient Warfare conference in Madrid (WAWIC), De Gruyter Brill editor Giulia Moriconi ran into Giorgia Proietti, who edited the volume "Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece" with Jeremy McInerney. Please drop by the booth and browse our latest titles in Ancient Warfare.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📙 Just published! "Expressions of Opposition to the Roman Empire" The proceedings of the 16th Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Sevilla, 22–25 May 2024) explore how anti-Roman discourses helped shape and consolidate the Roman Empire. Available OA: brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Edited under the supervision of Georgios K. Giannakis and Antonios Rengakos, this online resource offers a new reference point for medieval and early modern Greek texts. The first part is now available on Brill’s Dictionaries Online: dictionaries.brillonline.com/dmgo

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📯 The first volume of the Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vernacular Greek (1100–1669) is now online! This work is the English translation and concise version of Kriaras’ Dictionary of Medieval Greek Vernacular Literature (1100–1669), a landmark in Greek lexicography and historical linguistics.

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A classic case of rigorous epigraphy ruining an amazing story!😅

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Who was the cinaedus in ancient Roman society? Did the term refer to an actual group of individuals, or was it a stigmatizing label? A look back at a collection entirely dedicated to this figure, and to the study of ancient sexuality. #DGBPride www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The new edition offers a philosophical and philological introduction, text-critical notes, and is based on the evaluation of the full manuscript tradition, while also considering the indirect tradition and Sepúlveda’s Latin translation. Link to the edition: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We are delighted to announce the publication of the second and final volume of the edition of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ commentary on Aristotle’s >Metaphysics<, edited by Pantelis Golitsis. An important project, realized with the support of @bbaw.bsky.social y.social and @dfg.de

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A major highlight of this year’s program: Volume XV of the renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar, dedicated to Book XI of the Iliad. The work offers a German translation of the text, by Anton Bierl, along with the commentary by Marina Coray and Martha Krieter-Spiro: www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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