Acknowledgments
This book originated from a digital workshop organized at Leiden University temporibus covidianis in 2021. We thank all participants for their contributions and the lively and inspiring discussions. We are also very grateful for the helpful comments and suggestions made by a peer reviewer for Brill, to Tobias Reinhardt as temporary executive editor of the Mnemosyne Supplements, and to Giulia Moriconi and Mirjam Elbers for their interest in the topic and their support. We extend our profound gratitude to Hylke de Boer (Leiden), who has read all chapters and suggested numerous corrections, and to Cornelis van Tilburg (Leiden) for editorial assistance and for compiling the indices. Brillâs copy editor Millie Gall has very helpfully corrected last infelicities and inconsistencies.
The organization of the workshop and the publication of this book in open access have been made possible by the generous funding of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)âFunding no. 276-30-013âVIDI-project âMediated Ciceroâ; and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)âProject-ID 317232170âSFB 1285, âInvektivität. Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzungâ.