Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian specializing in Greece and the Near East. She has published numerous books and articles on sex, gender, mythology, religion, and iconography, including Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Routledge 2021) and Artemis (Routledge 2016). She considers herself to be the world expert on non-existent prostitution.

Caroline J. Tully is an archaeologist and curator. Her research interests include religion and ritual in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Reception of the Ancient World, and Contemporary Paganisms. She is the author of many articles on ancient religion as well as the book The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt, and Cyprus, and she is curator of the exhibit "Amor et Mors: Vessels for the Beautiful Body in Life and Death" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.