This volume is a timely contribution to a long-neglected area of classical scholarship. Previously, the subject of solitude and loneliness in antiquity has been taken up only sporadically in a small number of papers. Here, however, it receives the attention of 22 scholars who offer new approaches and thought-provoking insights into the phenomenon. Loneliness is today considered a problematic emotion, one that is likely to increase the risk of premature mortality and other adverse health outcomes. Given the current discussion of a “loneliness epidemic” reflecting the impacts of digital technologies, one may wonder whether in face-to-face societies such as ancient Athens or Rome this phenomenon was widespread at all. Yet as the editor of the volume states in his introduction, the complexities of solitude as a concept should not be overlooked. In every historical period, regardless of the stigma of being alone, loneliness has been experienced (p. 4), whether by choice (voluntary rejection) or compulsion (marginalized groups). The aim of the volume is to explore the multifaceted experience and dimensions (social, emotional, temporal, spatial, affective, etc.) of being alone in antiquity. The book does not claim to be a comprehensive treatment of this phenomenon, but is rather intended to reveal its complexity and multivocality to the reader (p. 9).