Joseph Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University. His publications include The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (New York, 2012), and (as co-editor) Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches (London, 2013) and Herodotus and the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2020).

Vicky Manolopoulou is Research Fellow in Environmental History at Ca'Foscari University, Venice. Her work centres on the intersection of landscape studies, environmental humanities, and the history of emotions, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium. Key research interests include human environment interactions, emotions, ritual, and mnemonic landscapes.

Christina Tsouparopoulou is Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University and Editor of Near Eastern Archaeology. Her work bridges the material, visual, and textual culture of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.