Abstract: (Readings for Times of Crisis. Greek and Latin Classics from the Sixteenth-Century Printing Press Catalogue in Brașov) The production of books in Brașov in the sixteenth century is the most eloquent example of ‘civic humanism’ of the Transylvanian Reformation. It probably began in 1539 with the publication of the Greek grammar by Johannes Honterus (c. 1498–1549). Of the three levels on which the city authorities attempted to implement both religious and moral reforms in the city, involving also the reorganisation of education and libraries, and the introduction of printing, the books printed here are the most visible aspect of the incisive action of the group of humanist scholars led by Honterus and Valentin Wagner (c. 1510–1557), the scholars who oriented and coordinated the cultural and religious change in Brașov. Along with the production of religious books (crowned by the publication of the Greek-Latin parallel edition of the New Testament in 1557), books intended for education or various aspects of social life (such as legal and medical texts), were also printed in Brașov a significant number of Greek and Latin classics, published in the original. Most of these works belong to the category of gnomic literature (‘sententiae’), functional to the programme of moral renovation of the civic body; however, the exceptions to this pattern are also worth analysing. The paper aims to highlight the still understudied relationship between the Transylvanian political and security crisis after 1526, the introduction of humanism and reformation in Brașov, and the classical bibliographical selection proposed here by the reform-minded humanists as part of their strategy of resilience in times of crisis.