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...

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)

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.

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! 🎺

🪲 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

☘️ 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

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!

📚 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.

📆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 🎉

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.

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...

📣 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...

🔓 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...

📆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 🎉

📙 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...

📯 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.

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...

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

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/...

Dennis Pausch, editor of our Millennium Yearbook (as well as of the book series Millennium Studies) presents the latest issue – 📆 we are looking forward to meeting you during the second day of the Große Mommsen-Tagung!

Meet our editors in Mainz! Kai Pätzke, Mirko Vonderstein and Katharina Legutke are attending the Große Mommsen-Tagung - feel free to visit our booth and browse through our latest publications📖

🔓Band 12 of the series CICERO is now available in Open Access... only for the bravest! “Dangerous Latin Literature: From Antiquity to the Modern Age." edited by Elisa Della Calce and Simone Mollea www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/... #LatinStudies #Cicero

Welcoming words by Dr. Floris van den Eijnde, editor of "Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean": brill.com/display/seri... Prof. Judith M. Barringer is co-editor of the recent volume "Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries: Exploring the Human Experience of Visiting the Gods": brill.com/display/titl...

📢 Out now! Vol. 10 of the "Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online", edited by Christos Tsagalis, is dedicated to the Cypria, a structurally privileged yet methodologically challenging poem of the Homeric Epic Cycle that narrates the prehistory of the Trojan War. brill.com/view/journal...

On the final day of the CA conference, we met with Virginia Mastellari, editor of the 200th (!) volume of Trends in Classics Supplements. Together with acquisistions editor Carlo Vessella, she is making the sign of '200'. Quite an occasion! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

FINAL DAY In the city with a rare combination of red brick buildings, 16th century pubs, and modern skyscrapers, we are starting the final day of the Classical Association annual meeting. It's your final chance to drop by, browse our titles, and/or discuss your publication project.