The work on this volume began as a workshop held June 8–11, 2022, at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, the conference venue of Justus Liebig University Giessen. The workshop was generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), with the additional support of the president of JLU Giessen. We are grateful to Niklas Kaiser, Lisa-Marei Stalp, Jannis Wittek, and Harald Zühlsdorf for their organizational and administrative support during and after the workshop.
We would like to thank all the participants of the workshop, who made the scholarly exchange very engaging and constructive. We are particularly grateful to Peter v. Möllendorff, co-organizer of the workshop at Rauischholzhausen, for his unwavering support of this project from its beginning to end. Furthermore, the workshop was organized at the end of Aldo Tagliabue’s stay in Giessen as a Humboldt Research Fellow. We are grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the department of Classics in Giessen for making this cooperation possible.
At the beginning of the editorial process, we (and our authors) were lucky to receive guidance from Irene de Jong, one of two editors of The Language of Classical Literature Series, and Mirjam Elbers, the Brill Senior Acquisitions Editor for Classical Studies. Special thanks are due to Giulia Moriconi, the associate editor for Classical Studies at Brill, for her availability and efficiency at all stages of the book’s production; to the anonymous reader for their constructive feedback; and to the editorial team at Brill for their expert work while preparing this volume for publication. Finally, we would like to thank Samuel Reich, the student research assistant who helped us with proofreading and formatting the volume.