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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 🎉

📣The first update of 2026 for Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum Online (SGGO) is now live!

The update adds nearly 62,000 words of new content, further expanding this collection of critical editions of the testimonies and fragments of ancient Greek grammarians.

SGGO brings together the lives, works, testimonies, and textual fragments of nearly 100 ancient grammarians, accompanied by a critical apparatus, translations, and commentary.

🔗Access the latest update on the SGGO webpage: https://brill.com/display/db/sggo

📄The list of updates is at the bottom of the page, under 'Downloads'.

Would you like to learn more about SGGO and other De Gruyter Brill Online Resources? Then join our webinar on digital humanities, “From Antiquity to the Digital Age,” on 30 June!

📝Webinar registration:
https://marketing.degruyterbrill.com/Webinar_OnlineResources_ClassicalStudies

“Synchronizing the Body in Ancient Medicine and Philosophy”, edited by Giouli Korobili, Kassandra Miller, and Philip van der Eijk, is now out and available Open Acess:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783112235690/html

Ancient physicians and philosophers were deeply concerned with the significance of simultaneous events and the ways in which different temporal patterns interacted and overlapped. Bringing together perspectives from ancient medicine, philosophy, astrology, and meteorology, this volume explores how ancient thinkers conceptualized meaningful coincidences and sought to align temporal cycles: between body and environment, illness and therapy, individual and cosmos.

Spanning sources from the fifth century BCE to the sixth century CE, the contributions shed new light on ancient conceptions of health, disease, gender, and bodily rhythms.

Today, the Ausonius prize, awarded by the 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 🎉

Look who we ran into at the WAWIC conference in Madrid! Giorgia Proietti with the volume "Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece" that she edited together with Jeremy McInerney.
De Gruyter Brill editor Giulia Moriconi is attending the 'Warfare in the Ancient World International Conference' in Madrid. If you are around, do not hesitate to drop by the booth, browse our latest titles or discuss your publication plans with Giulia.

https://brill.com/display/title/73565
https://www.ucm.es/preharq-hantigua/wawic-madrid-2026

📣 "Expressions of Opposition to the Roman Empire", edited by Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Rocío Gordillo Hervás, and Olivier Hekster, is out now and available open access.

The volume brings together papers from the Sixteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Seville, 22–25 May 2024), exploring how anti-Roman discourse played a role in shaping and consolidating the Empire.

Read the workshop proceedings for free ⬇️

https://brill.com/display/title/64197

📯Exciting news! The first volume of the “Concise Dictionary of Medieval Vernacular Greek (1100–1669)" is now available online!

This work is the English translation and concise version of Emmanuel Kriaras’ monumental Dictionary of Medieval Greek Vernacular Literature (1100–1669), a landmark in Greek lexicography and historical linguistics.
Translated and edited under the supervision of Georgios K. Giannakis and Antonios Rengakos, this four-volume abridgement preserves the scholarly value of the original, while offering a more accessible tool and initial point of reference for the study of medieval and early modern Greek texts.

Approximately 25% of the work is already consultable on Brill’s Dictionaries online platform: https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/dmgo

New material will be published regularly until the project’s completion, planned for 2028.

Sound interesting? Recommend it to your librarian!

For , a look back at a book dedicated to the cryptic figure of the "cinaedus", recurrent in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world.

Who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or was the term a stigmatizing label used to keep forms of threatening otherness at bay?

As the first systematic collection of essays on the topic, this book explores the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi, but also the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.



Link to the book:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004548381/html

📘 We are pleased to announce the publication of the second and final volume of the critical edition of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ "Commentary on Aristotle, Metaphysics: Books IV–V", edited by Pantelis Golitsis.

This new edition, which includes a philosophical and philological introduction, as well as notes on textcritical issues, is based on a critical evaluation of the entire manuscript tradition of the commentary. It also takes into account its indirect tradition and the Latin translation of Juan Ginès Sepúlveda.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110786095/html

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