Arianna Fermani is Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Macerata. Since 2023 she has also been a member of the UNESCO Chair in Economic Systems and Human Rights (Universidad Nacional de La Plata). She is the author of numerous books, including Perché leggere ancora Aristotele (Unicopli, 2025), Economia e felicità. Del buon uso della ricchezza in Aristotele (petite plaisance, 2023), and Aristotele e l’infinità del male (Morcelliana, 2019). She has translated Aristotle’s Ethics in their entirety (Le tre Etiche, Bompiani 2008; Giunti 2018, repeatedly reprinted) as well as Topics and Sophistical Refutations (Organon, Bompiani 2016). With Maurizio Migliori she co-edited the textbook Filosofia antica. Una prospettiva multifocale (Morcelliana, 2020).

Silvia Gastaldi, Former Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Pavia, has extensively studied Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories on poetry and rhetoric, as well as several issues of Greek ethical and political thought relating to the fourth century BCE. She is the author of numerous essays and monographs on these topics, and she also dealt with ancient theories of emotions (see her scholarly article Pathe and Polis: Aristotle’s Theory of Passions in the Rhetoric and the Ethics. She authored books on the history of ancient political thought – among which her Introduzione alla storia del Pensiero politico antico, published by Carocci in 2008, where she addresses the main evolutions of political thought from the origins of the polis up to Imperial Rome, taking issues with figures like Solon, the Sofists, Plato, Isocrates, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius. She has recently published a book entitled Politica e politiche. Perché e come rileggere Aristotele oggi (with G.B. Magnoli Bocchi).

Edward M. Harris is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He has published Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens: Essays on Law, Society, and Politics in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2006) and The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens (Oxford 2013). Professor Harris has also co-edited seven including The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece, Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek World (with David Lewis and Mark Woolmer), Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (with Edmund Stewart and David Lewis), The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World (with Sylvian Fachard), and Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory (with Alberto Esu).

Elena Irrera is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on the relationship between ancient political thought and contemporary philosophy, with particular reference to the ideals of tolerance, respect, and solidarity. She is the author of articles on ancient and contemporary political philosophy published in national and international journals, and of monographs on Aristotle’s philosophy (including Sulla bellezza della vita buona. Fini e Criteri dell’agire umano in Aristotele, Carabba 2012). Her forthcoming publication is Una giustizia in divenire. Le radici teoriche della solidarietà (Rubbettino).

Manuel Knoll, Prof. Dr. phil. habil., after holding three full professorships in Istanbul (2010-2023), returned in 2024 to the University of Munich (LMU), where he is Privatdozent in Political Theory and Philosophy. He is a member of the Instituto “Lucio Anneo Séneca” at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and associate editor of Polis. The Journal for Greek and Roman Political Thought (Brill). He has lectured and published widely on ancient, modern, and contemporary political philosophy and ethics, with a particular focus on theories of justice, deep disagreements on values and morals, as well as on Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Rawls, Walzer, social philosophy, and critical theory.

Veronika Konrádová is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Faculty of Arts, J.E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic). She specializes in ancient philosophy, particularly ethics and ancient political thought, with a focus on ancient reflections on democracy, political rhetoric, public argumentation, deliberation, and collective decision-making. Her research also addresses Plato’s thought and his engagement with poets, Presocratic philosophers, and Sophists. More broadly, her interests include communication strategies in philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and poetry, and Greek epic and drama. She is the author of a monograph on Hesiod and a contributor to the OIKOYMENH series of interpretations of Plato’s dialogues.

Francisco L. Lisi is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University Carlos III of Madrid and was the founder and director of the Institute of Classics “Lucio Anneo Seneca” until his retirement. He has been an active member of the International Plato Society. He is currently co-editor of the digital journal Πηγή/Fons and of the series Collegium Politicum at Academia Verlag. His main fields of research are classical political thought and ancient philosophy, to which he has contributed more than 200 publications. At present, Lisi is working on a critical edition of Plato’s Laws.

Thornton Lockwood is Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman ethical and political thought. He is the author of Aristotle on Justice: The Virtues of Citizenship and Constitutions (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). His work on Aeschylus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero has appeared in journals such as Phronesis, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the Monist, Apeiron, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. He is currently writing a monograph that reconstructs Aristotle’s environmental philosophy, tentatively titled Animals in the City by Nature: Aristotle’s Environmental Philosophy. In addition, he is preparing an annotated translation of the Aristotelian Oeconomica with Dr. Robert van Velthoven.

Jospeh Moural studied mathematics and philosophy at Charles University, Prague, and most of his philosophy education stems from the private philosophical circles of the pre-1989 Prague. He teaches philosophy at J.E. Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, and West-Bohemian University, Pilsen (previously he taught at Charles University, Prague, Central European University, Prague, King’s College, London, and University of California, Berkeley). His research and publishing areas are, especially, the classical phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Patocka), social ontology, and ancient and modern philosophy. His Habilitationschrift was on Skepticism, its forerunners and its inheritors. Among his publications, see Greek Polytheist Cults and Monotheist Thinking in Tension (and its Political Reverberations), in Giovanni Giorgini & Elena Irrera (eds.), God, Religion and Society in Ancient Thought: From Early Greek Philosophy to Augustine, edited by Nomos Verlag 2023.

Federica Piangerelli is Adjunct Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Macerata, where she obtained her PhD in “Humanities and Technologies” in 2023. Since May 2025, she is a member of the project “Ancient Rhetoric and the Aristotle’s Rhetoric” at the University of Padua. In 2024, she was Research fellow at the Accademia Vivarium Novum (Frascati, Italy), working on the project “Zètesis. Research in the Humanities”. Her studies mainly focus on the ethical and political thought of Plato and Aristotle, Plato’s dialectic and the Presocratic philosophy (Heraclitus and the Eleatism). Among her publications: F. Piangerelli, Alle origini del confronto con l’alterità. I filosofi greci, i barbari, gli stranieri (CLEUP, 2025) and F. Piangerelli (ed.), Platone e la Teoria delle Idee. Nuove prospettive di ricerca per antiche questioni teoriche (petite plaisance, 2023).