<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am very pleased to announce the publication of:</span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rafał Matuszewski (ed.), </div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><b class="">Being Alone in Antiquity. Greco-Roman Ideas and Experiences of Misanthropy, Isolation and Solitude</b></span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">IX + 470 pp., 2 figs., <b class="">De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">print ISBN: 9783110757934</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">ebook ISBN: 9783110758078</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of, and varying meanings and connotations attributed to, them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i class="">Contributors</i>: </span><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Angelos Chaniotis, Karolina Sekita, Aurélie Damet, Darrel Janzen, Przemysław Piwowarczyk, Francesca Boldrer, Herbert Graßl, Rosalia Hatzilambrou, Frances Pownall, Sabine Müller, Fabio Tutrone, Bernadette Descharmes, Andres V. Matlock, Monika Frass, Islème Sassi, Bruce M. King, Christian Laes, Thomas Gärtner, Stefan Feddern, Florian Krüpe, Nadine Metzger.</font><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">For more information about this volume (including the table of contents) see <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110758078/html" class="">https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110758078/html</a> </div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Best wishes,</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Rafal Matuszewski</font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">—</span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#555555" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Dr. Rafał Matuszewski</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#555555" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Universität Salzburg<b class=""> </b>| FB Altertumswissenschaften</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#555555" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Alte Geschichte, Altertumskunde und Mykenologie</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#555555" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Residenzplatz 1/IV | A-5020 Salzburg | Austria</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#555555" class="">+43 662 8044 4701 | <a href="mailto:rafal.matuszewski@plus.ac.at" class="">rafal.matuszewski@plus.ac.at</a></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>