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News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
📆On Nov 6 at 7pm (EET) our book "Fake News in Ancient Greece. Forms and Functions of 'False Information' in Ancient Greek Literature" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... will be presented at a book launch at the University of Athens. The hybrid event is open to the public; feel free to join us!
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📆On Nov 6 at 7pm (EET) our book "Fake News in Ancient Greece. Forms and Functions of 'False Information' in Ancient Greek Literature" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... will be presented at a book launch at the University of Athens. The hybrid event is open to the public; feel free to join us!
Scholars Ermanno Guerra, Rita Patrizia Aquino, Iolanda Ventura, Luciano Mauro, Emanuela Appetiti and Alain Touwaide will comment on this major publication, edited by Steven M. Oberhelman of @tamu.bsky.social. Join us!
Explore the book here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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Explore the book here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Scholars Ermanno Guerra, Rita Patrizia Aquino, Iolanda Ventura, Luciano Mauro, Emanuela Appetiti and Alain Touwaide will comment on this major publication, edited by Steven M. Oberhelman of @tamu.bsky.social. Join us!
Explore the book here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
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📣 Tomorrow, on Oct 24 at 5:30pm our book "Manuscripts, #Plants, #Remedies in the #Mediterranean Traditions" will be presented in Salerno, Italy. The event is free and open to the public and presents a wonderful opportunity to visit the newly restored Minerva's Garden. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📣 Tomorrow, on Oct 24 at 5:30pm our book "Manuscripts, #Plants, #Remedies in the #Mediterranean Traditions" will be presented in Salerno, Italy. The event is free and open to the public and presents a wonderful opportunity to visit the newly restored Minerva's Garden. 1/2
We are very pleased to celebrate the wonderful occasion of Bernhard Zimmermann's 70th birthday with 2 books: His Collected Papers (UaLG) and a Festschrift in his honour with the beautiful title "Playing in the Sun": Happy Birthday Bernhard, ad multos annos! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We are very pleased to celebrate the wonderful occasion of Bernhard Zimmermann's 70th birthday with 2 books: His Collected Papers (UaLG) and a Festschrift in his honour with the beautiful title "Playing in the Sun": Happy Birthday Bernhard, ad multos annos! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Interested in reading one of the very few surviving ancient Greek romances? If so, enjoy our latest Tusculum volume: Achilleus Tatios' "Leucippe and Clitophon", brilliantly as usual translated into German by Niklas Holzberg:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Interested in reading one of the very few surviving ancient Greek romances? If so, enjoy our latest Tusculum volume: Achilleus Tatios' "Leucippe and Clitophon", brilliantly as usual translated into German by Niklas Holzberg:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unseren Autor Dr. Andreas Herrmann! Mit dem Premio Romanistico Internazionale Gérard Boulvert wird das beste monografische Erstlingswerk im Bereich des römischen Rechts und der klassischen antiken Rechte prämiert.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unseren Autor Dr. Andreas Herrmann! Mit dem Premio Romanistico Internazionale Gérard Boulvert wird das beste monografische Erstlingswerk im Bereich des römischen Rechts und der klassischen antiken Rechte prämiert.
🔗 www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/bereicherung...
🔗 www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/bereicherung...
After a restful summer do not forget to get your study tools from De Gruyter Brill at a nice discount.
40% discount on your copy of Brill's Ancient Greek Dictionary (by F. Montanari), on a Pauly Supplement, and on many other scholarly resources!
marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...
40% discount on your copy of Brill's Ancient Greek Dictionary (by F. Montanari), on a Pauly Supplement, and on many other scholarly resources!
marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...
August 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
After a restful summer do not forget to get your study tools from De Gruyter Brill at a nice discount.
40% discount on your copy of Brill's Ancient Greek Dictionary (by F. Montanari), on a Pauly Supplement, and on many other scholarly resources!
marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...
40% discount on your copy of Brill's Ancient Greek Dictionary (by F. Montanari), on a Pauly Supplement, and on many other scholarly resources!
marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale20...
Unity vs Idiosyncrasy
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Unity vs Idiosyncrasy
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
Congratulations to the editors and contributors of Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World on this fine review published in the American Journal of Archeology @archaeological.org:
📝 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📘 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📝 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Congratulations to the editors and contributors of Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World on this fine review published in the American Journal of Archeology @archaeological.org:
📝 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📘 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📝 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📘 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📢 Special Issue on "Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East", edited by Maria Gabriella Micale, Helen Dawson, & Antti A. Lahelma, is now available via open access as part of Open Archaeology vol. 11/1
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opar/11/1/html
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opar/11/1/html
July 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Special Issue on "Network Perspectives in the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East", edited by Maria Gabriella Micale, Helen Dawson, & Antti A. Lahelma, is now available via open access as part of Open Archaeology vol. 11/1
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opar/11/1/html
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opar/11/1/html
Half-time at the 31st International Congress of Papyrology in Cologne with many exciting lectures, wonderful authors and participants and lots of good conversations. We look forward to the second half! #papyrology
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Half-time at the 31st International Congress of Papyrology in Cologne with many exciting lectures, wonderful authors and participants and lots of good conversations. We look forward to the second half! #papyrology
On the way to the 31st International Congress of Papyrology in Cologne. Acquisition Editors Vincent Oeters and Mirko Vonderstein are looking forward to the conference and all the planned (and unplanned) meetings there! papyrocongress2025.uni-koeln.de/en/
July 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
On the way to the 31st International Congress of Papyrology in Cologne. Acquisition Editors Vincent Oeters and Mirko Vonderstein are looking forward to the conference and all the planned (and unplanned) meetings there! papyrocongress2025.uni-koeln.de/en/
After a great final day at the CCC conference, we leave the beautiful Coimbra behind. Thanks to the organisers and attendees, it has been a pleasure to be part of it and meet with so many scholars, authors, editors.
Do not forget to profit from the discount on selected titles: qrco.de/bg7p70
Do not forget to profit from the discount on selected titles: qrco.de/bg7p70
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
After a great final day at the CCC conference, we leave the beautiful Coimbra behind. Thanks to the organisers and attendees, it has been a pleasure to be part of it and meet with so many scholars, authors, editors.
Do not forget to profit from the discount on selected titles: qrco.de/bg7p70
Do not forget to profit from the discount on selected titles: qrco.de/bg7p70
And available in Open Access: this wonderful cooperation between classicists and social psychologists in a unique, innovative volume. In Coimbra, we met the book’s happy co-editor Luuk Huitink:
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July 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And available in Open Access: this wonderful cooperation between classicists and social psychologists in a unique, innovative volume. In Coimbra, we met the book’s happy co-editor Luuk Huitink:
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
Diederik Burgersdijk, co-editor of ‘Constantinople through the Ages’, launched the book in Istanbul a few months ago - and showed it today at the CCC in Coimbra.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Diederik Burgersdijk, co-editor of ‘Constantinople through the Ages’, launched the book in Istanbul a few months ago - and showed it today at the CCC in Coimbra.
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At the CCC in Coimbra, Marion Meyer was happy to see the book that she edited together with Efimia Karakantza and Alexandros Velaoras on Ancient Necropolitics: brill.com/display/titl...
July 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
At the CCC in Coimbra, Marion Meyer was happy to see the book that she edited together with Efimia Karakantza and Alexandros Velaoras on Ancient Necropolitics: brill.com/display/titl...
The Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC) has started! Please drop by the booth at the University of Coimbra, or browse our title list here: qrco.de/bg7p70
July 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC) has started! Please drop by the booth at the University of Coimbra, or browse our title list here: qrco.de/bg7p70
Off to go good start tomorrow at the CCC ! Do we have all books? Senior Acquisitions Editor Mirjam Elbers and Marketing manager Chantal Moest are packing for the Celtic Conference in Classics, in Coimbra. www.uc.pt/cech/16-ccc/...
Please drop by the De Gruyter Brill booth in Coimbra for a chat!
Please drop by the De Gruyter Brill booth in Coimbra for a chat!
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Off to go good start tomorrow at the CCC ! Do we have all books? Senior Acquisitions Editor Mirjam Elbers and Marketing manager Chantal Moest are packing for the Celtic Conference in Classics, in Coimbra. www.uc.pt/cech/16-ccc/...
Please drop by the De Gruyter Brill booth in Coimbra for a chat!
Please drop by the De Gruyter Brill booth in Coimbra for a chat!
Some impressions of the whirlwind of activities that was this year's #ClassicalAssociation conference, the #CA2025: fantastic panels and great conversation all around, many wonderful books on display, and the occasional moment for us to take in the sights of an astonishingly sunny St Andrews!
July 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Some impressions of the whirlwind of activities that was this year's #ClassicalAssociation conference, the #CA2025: fantastic panels and great conversation all around, many wonderful books on display, and the occasional moment for us to take in the sights of an astonishingly sunny St Andrews!
Final day at #CA2025 and final chance to see what we've published in #Classics and #AncientStudies, get the 35% conference discount code for our webshop, and talk to our editor Carlo about your idea for a book! 📚
July 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Final day at #CA2025 and final chance to see what we've published in #Classics and #AncientStudies, get the 35% conference discount code for our webshop, and talk to our editor Carlo about your idea for a book! 📚
🌳 St Mary's Quad: the counterpart to St Salvator's Quad, this one on South Street is equally beautiful and sports a couple of ancient trees—one allegedly planted by Mary, Queen of Scots herself! Enter through the gates on South Street.
#CA2025
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#CA2025
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July 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🌳 St Mary's Quad: the counterpart to St Salvator's Quad, this one on South Street is equally beautiful and sports a couple of ancient trees—one allegedly planted by Mary, Queen of Scots herself! Enter through the gates on South Street.
#CA2025
@staclassics.bsky.social
@cascotland.bsky.social
#CA2025
@staclassics.bsky.social
@cascotland.bsky.social
📚 Local bookstores: if you'd like to browse some non-academic books (we understand..), it's worth heading to Greyfriars Garden.
🍃 Lade Braes: this tranquil and picturesque walk is perfect to mull over some dense panel material. Enter from South street to the left of Blackfriars Chapel.
🍃 Lade Braes: this tranquil and picturesque walk is perfect to mull over some dense panel material. Enter from South street to the left of Blackfriars Chapel.
July 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
📚 Local bookstores: if you'd like to browse some non-academic books (we understand..), it's worth heading to Greyfriars Garden.
🍃 Lade Braes: this tranquil and picturesque walk is perfect to mull over some dense panel material. Enter from South street to the left of Blackfriars Chapel.
🍃 Lade Braes: this tranquil and picturesque walk is perfect to mull over some dense panel material. Enter from South street to the left of Blackfriars Chapel.
#CA2025, if you want to explore some hidden gems in and around St Andrews during the conference, here are some insider tips:
🪨 Fife Coastal Path: a walk with breathtaking views onto the beach and the Cathedral—head down to East Sands, go past the Leisure Centre and up the path by the rocks.
🪨 Fife Coastal Path: a walk with breathtaking views onto the beach and the Cathedral—head down to East Sands, go past the Leisure Centre and up the path by the rocks.
July 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#CA2025, if you want to explore some hidden gems in and around St Andrews during the conference, here are some insider tips:
🪨 Fife Coastal Path: a walk with breathtaking views onto the beach and the Cathedral—head down to East Sands, go past the Leisure Centre and up the path by the rocks.
🪨 Fife Coastal Path: a walk with breathtaking views onto the beach and the Cathedral—head down to East Sands, go past the Leisure Centre and up the path by the rocks.
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘀
The platform scholarlyeditions.brill.com supports work across multiple corpora—including #JacobyOnline, #SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum, texts by #GregoryOfNyssa, #Apuleius, and more. An indispensable tool for classicists.
The platform scholarlyeditions.brill.com supports work across multiple corpora—including #JacobyOnline, #SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum, texts by #GregoryOfNyssa, #Apuleius, and more. An indispensable tool for classicists.
July 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘀
The platform scholarlyeditions.brill.com supports work across multiple corpora—including #JacobyOnline, #SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum, texts by #GregoryOfNyssa, #Apuleius, and more. An indispensable tool for classicists.
The platform scholarlyeditions.brill.com supports work across multiple corpora—including #JacobyOnline, #SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum, texts by #GregoryOfNyssa, #Apuleius, and more. An indispensable tool for classicists.
Huge congratulations to Rob Icke for being awarded the #ClassicalAssociation Prize recognizing outstanding contributions to the promotion of Classics in the UK at #CA2025 just now! 👏🏼
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July 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Huge congratulations to Rob Icke for being awarded the #ClassicalAssociation Prize recognizing outstanding contributions to the promotion of Classics in the UK at #CA2025 just now! 👏🏼
@cascotland.bsky.social
@staclassics.bsky.social
@cascotland.bsky.social
@staclassics.bsky.social