Thomas Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Rutgers University, USA. He is co-editor of Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus (2020), co-author of Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar (2001) and author of The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (1998).

Rosaria Vignolo Munson is J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, USA. She is author of Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus (2013), Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Language of Barbarians (2005) and Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus (2001). She is also co-editor of Herodotus: Histories Book I (2022).