Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham. She has published 37 books on ancient Greece and Rome and their continuing presences in the modern world, acts as consultant to professional theatre companies and regularly broadcasts on the BBC. With Arlene Holmes-Henderson she leads a campaign to support teaching of classics and philosophy in state schools and prisons.

Rory McInnes-Gibbons works on the Leverhulme-funded Durham University research project Aristotle Beyond the Academy (2024-2026) and previously co-coordinated the community outreach project, Classics and Class in the North East. He works across classical reception with a focus on the Roman Near East having graduated from a PhD on Palmyra at Durham in 2023.

Edmund Thomas is Professor of Ancient Visual and Material Culture at Durham University. He has published widely on Roman architecture and its afterlife from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period. His chapter in this volume is part of a forthcoming longer study on the history of the keystone from Greek and Roman antiquity to the modern era.