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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- When a Man Is an Island: Introductory Remarks on Being Alone in Antiquity -- Part I: Times and Places -- "Are you lonesome tonight?" Nocturnal Solitude in Greek Culture -- Forms of Solitude and Isolation in the Face of Death in Ancient Greece -- Solitude, société et politique à Sparte -- Elite Solitude, Slavery, and Social Privilege at the Imperial Roman Villa -- O.Frange 773 as a Micro-Discourse on a Solitary Life in Western Thebes -- Part II: Individuals, Norms and Stereotypes -- Einsamkeit und Misanthropie des Weisen: Die Gestalt des Meeresgottes Proteus in Mythos und klassischer Literatur (Homer, Vergil, Ovid) -- Timon der Misanthrop, social distancing und die Gesellschaft Athens im 5. Jh. v.Chr. -- Being Unsociable in Classical Athens: A Very Bad Attitude Indeed -- Dionysius I and the Loneliness of Power (or, The Tyrant as Cyclops) -- Kallisthenes of Olynthos and the Twofold Image of "Being Alone" at Alexander's Court -- A View from the Garden: Contemplative Isolation and Constructive Sociability in Lucretius and in the Epicurean Tradition -- "Next to yourself, solitude is my best friend" (Cic. ad Att. 12.15 [252]): Cicero's Experience of Being Alone – A Case Study -- The Solitude of a Lifetime in Cicero's De Finibus 5 -- Alleinherrscher – Herrscher allein? Das Tiberiusbild in der Kaiserbiographie Suetons -- Fori strepitu remotus ruris otium celebravi: Paulinus von Nola balanciert zwischen Weltabgewandtheit und Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Diskurs -- Part III: Gender, Emotions and Mental Conditions -- Bellerophon and Akhilleus: Self Destruction and World Destruction in the Iliad -- The Loneliness of a Marriage with Age Difference in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Exploring the (Im)possibility of Writing Emotional History -- Das Motiv der Einsamkeit bzw. Verlassenheit in den ovidischen Heroidenbriefen -- Zu Ovids Vergleich zwischen seinen und Odysseus' Leiden (trist. 1,5) -- Exil, Isolation, Rufmord: Über die Einsamkeit einer Kaisertochter und ihr mediales Nachleben -- Pathologische Menschenflucht. Melancholische misanthropia in der kaiserzeitlichen und frühbyzantinischen Medizin -- List of Contributors -- Index

1. A polyglot traveller in the republic of letters / Jan Loop -- 2. Between literature and history / Ziad Elmarsafy -- 3. Islam as a 'rational' religion: early modern European views / Noel Malcolm -- 4. Thomas Erpenius, Oriental scholarship and the art of persuasion / Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg -- 5. From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius's edition of al-Farghānī's On the science of the stars in comparison with the earlier versions / Charles Burnett -- 6. An unrecognized 'critique' of John Selden's Historie of tithes: John Gregory's 1634 edition of View of the civile and ecclesiasticall law by Thomas Ridley / Mordechai Feingold -- 7. Ravius in the East / Gerald J. Toomer -- 8. Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr 1650 / Martin Mulsow -- 9. The errant eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the monasteries of Suhāg / Nicholas Warner -- 10. Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l'érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) / Aurélien Girard -- 11. Historia Literaria Alcorani: two Lutheran scholars chronicling Oriental scholarship at the turn of the Eighteenth century / Asaph Ben-Tov -- 12. Fasting: the limits of Catholic confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth century / Bernard Heyberger -- 13. Away with all the Greeks: ancients, moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont's 'Oratio de lingua Arabica' (1715) / Alexander Bevilacqua -- 14. Richard Pococke and the natural curiosities of the East / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver -- 15. Patrick Russell and the Arabian nights manuscripts / Maurits H. van den Boogert -- 16. Volney's Meditations on ruins and empires / Robert Irwin -- 17. Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795-1798 vus de Bagdad / Francis Richard -- 18. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848-1856 / Tarif Khalidi -- 19. Snouck Hurgronje's Consular ambitions / Jan Just Witkam.