Mattia Pietro Balbo is Post-Doc Research Fellow in Roman History at Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy). His research interests focus on Roman institutions and economy during the Roman Republic, particularly regarding the agrarian issues of the Roman Italy in the age of Gracchi. His major publications are the monographs Riformare la res publica. Retroterra sociale e significato politico del tribunato di Tiberio Gracco (Bari, Edipuglia, 2013) and I dodici anni che cambiarono Roma. La vicenda dei Gracchi nella crisi della repubblica (Zermenghedo (VI), Edizioni Saecula, forthcoming).

Michele Bellomo is Post-Doc Research Fellow in Roman History at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy). His research is mainly focused on Roman Republican history, particularly on the political and institutional dynamics during the Punic Wars, and the changing attitudes of the Roman nobility towards Imperialism between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. He is the author of: Polybius and the Outbreak of the First Punic War (SCO 59, 2013), Le elezioni consolari del 215 a.C. e la posizione politica di M. Claudio Marcello (Politica antica 7, 2017); co-editor (with Simonetta Segenni) of Epigrafia e politica (Milano, Ledizioni, 2017). He is also currently working, along with Pier Giuseppe Michelotto, on the Italian translation of M.I. Rostovtzeff’s book: Rozdenie Rimskoj Imperii (The Birth of the Roman Empire).

Mirko Canevaro is Reader in Classics at University of Edinburgh. He is particularly interested in the legal and political institutions of ancient Greek poleis, in Attic oratory and in Greek epigraphy. He is the author of: The documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013), Aristotele, Politica IV, Introduzione, traduzione e commento (with G. Besso, F. Pezzoli, L. Bertelli and M. Moggi – Roma, L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2014) and Demostene, Contro Leptine. Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento Storico (Stuttgart, De Gruyter, 2016).

Roberto Ciucciové is a PhD Candidate in Ancient history at Newcastle University. His thesis is titled The Res Publica of the Tribunes. Tribunician Legislation and the Political Strategies of the Roman Mid-Republican Elite (218-180 BC), and his research interests deal with Mid-republican Rome, Roman political history, Roman historiography, History of Marxism and of the Italian Communist Party.

Anna Maria Cimino is a PhD Candidate in Classics at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Her project title is Memoria e intertestualità nell'Eneide. Saggi critici sulle rappresentazioni degli Italici nell'epica virgiliana. She is primarily interested in literary critique, intertextuality, archaic Rome and antiquarian knowledge.

Alberto Esu is a PhD Candidate in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the AHRC (Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities). His thesis is titled The Procedure of Adeia in the Greek City-States. His research interests deal mainly with ancient Greek political institutions & legal procedures.

Elena Giusti is Assistant Professor in Latin Literature and Language at the University of Warwick. Elena's interests extend widely across the range of Latin and Greek literature and historiography, and encompass Classical Reception, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory and Intellectual History. Her first monograph, entitled Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus (Cambridge University Press), explores the ideological use of Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid, and she is currently working on a second monograph exploring how notable characters and events passed over in silence by the Augustan poets turn the poetry itself as a locus for conspiratory readings.

Phillip Sidney Horky is an Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Durham University. His monograph Plato and Pythagoreanism (Oxford University Press, 2013) focussed on the importance of mathematical Pythagoreanism for the development of Plato's philosophy. After completing articles dealing with the Early Academy and Hellenistic and Posthellenistic philosophy, he is now in the process of editing for publication a volume entitled Cosmos in the Ancient Word (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This volume investigates notions of cosmic order, balance, and symmetry in ancient physics, politics, ethics, poetics, and aesthetics.

Emma Nicholson is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She works mainly on Hellenistic history and historiography, with research interests including Polybios, Philip V of Macedon, the Antigonids, ancient Macedonia, Hellenistic kingship, and rhetoric and interstate relations. Her monograph Philip V of Macedon in Polybios' Histories is in progress. Her next research project, entitled Polybios and the Challenge of Change, aims to produce the first full-scale investigation of Polybios’ Histories as a response to the challenges of political and social change faced by the ancient Mediterranean after the collision of Greece and Rome in the third and second centuries BC.

Jeremy Paterson is a social and economic historian and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University, with wide-ranging interests from Cicero to Early Christianity. Jeremy taught Greek and Roman history for over forty years at Newcastle University, and has published and edited books on the topic of the creation of the court of the Roman emperor and issues within the court system of ancient Rome. He edited, with Jonathan Powell, the volume Cicero the Advocate (2004).

Federico Santangelo is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Director of Research at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. He works and publishes on the political and intellectual history of the late Republic, on Roman religion, on problems of local and municipal administration in the Roman world, and on aspects of the history of classical scholarship. His books include: Sulla, the Elites and the Empire. A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (Brill, 2007), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Marius (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Christopher Smith is a Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and was Director of the British School at Rome (2009-2017). Christopher is broadly interested in the social, political and economic development of early Rome and Latium and is currently completing a general account of the place of history in Roman society. His books include: The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius (with Yarrow, L - Oxford University Press, 2012) and A very short introduction to the Etruscans (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Laura Swift is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is interested in the field of archaic and classical Greek poetry and drama and is currently completing a commentary on the seventh-century BC poet Archilochus. Her book The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (Oxford University Press, 2010) argues for the central importance of choral song as a cultural tool in Greek society.

Cristiano Viglietti is a Senior Researcher in Roman History at the University of Siena. He is also a member of the Centro AMA (Antopologia del Mondo antico), an inter-departmental institute of research on anthropology of the ancient world. His research focusses on the Anthropology and economic history of ancient Rome, with a particular interest on the archaic and republican ages. In 2011, he published the monograph Il limite del bisogno. Antropologia economica di Roma arcaica (Il Mulino).

Kostas Vlassopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete. His research focusses on include the history of slavery, the study of globalisation and intercultural encounters in antiquity, comparative history, the history of political thought and practice and the history of historiography. His books include: Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Greeks and Barbarians (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Emilio Zucchetti is a PhD Candidate in Classics and Ancient History at Newcastle University, fully funded by the AHRC (Northern Bridge Consortium). He is currently working on a thesis titled Unrest in the Roman Republic and the Early Principate: Discordia and discordiae between Repression, Accommodation and Consensus-Building. His research interests deal with cultural aspects of the social and political history of the Roman Republic, focusing on masses' and contestatory politics, Latin literature, classical philology and texts' transmission, political theory, post-Marxism and the philosophy of History.