Acknowledgments
This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised versions of papers presented at the international conference “Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity: Towards a Historical Socio-Semiotic Approach.” Held at the cultural center Het Pand in Ghent from October 3 to 5, 2019, the conference occurred in the context of the ERC project “Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt: A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation” and benefitted from the financial support of the Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program Research Network (FWO) as well as Brill. Various junior colleagues provided practical help during that conference, for which we would like to express our gratitude. We would also like to thank all the people who have been involved in bringing this book project to its completion, including Giulia Moriconi, associate editor for Classical Studies at Brill, for her patience and support; Melinda Johnston, our copy-editor, for the invaluable help she provided in formatting and proofreading the individual chapters; the anonymous reviewer at Brill, for their useful comments and suggestions; and last but not least, our contributors, for the enthusiasm and attentiveness they displayed at the conference, and the eagerness with which they contributed to this volume.
Klaas Bentein & Yasmine Amory
Ghent, June 2022