Paul McKechnie, D.Phil. (1985), University College, Oxford, is Associate Professor (CoRE) in Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has published on Greek and Roman history, and (with Philippe Guillaume) edited Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World (Brill, 2008).
Jennifer A. Cromwell, PhD (2008), University of Liverpool, is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Her work focuses on Late Antique Egypt and she is the author of Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt (2017).

Contributors are: +Chris Bennett, Henry P. Colburn, Thomas Landvatter, Paul McKechnie, Martina Minas-Nerpel, Boyo G. Ockinga, Dorothy J. Thompson.