Ilaria Ramelli is Assistant Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. She has numerous publications in the areas of ancient philosophy and early Christian thought, with particular interest in the relationship between classical culture and Christianity and particular focus on the imperial period, including the recent volume co-authored with David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and Aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts (Gorgias). Other books include Gregorio di Nissa Sull'Anima e la Resurrezione (Milan: Bompiani-Catholic University) and Stoici Romani Minori (Milan: RCS Bompiani).

David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His many books include Friendship in the Classical World (Cambridge University Press), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (University of Toronto Press), and Heraclitus: Homeric Problems (co-author; Society of Biblical Literature).