Bettany Hughes OBE FSA is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. A graduate of Oxford University, she has taught at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Her previous books include Venus and Aphrodite (shortlisted for the Runciman Award), Istanbul (a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Runciman Award), The Hemlock Cup (a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Writers Guild award) and Helen Of Troy. All her books have been translated into multiple languages. She has made many documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, ABC and the Discovery and History channels. Bettany has been a Professor at the New College of Humanities and Research Fellow at King's College London. She has been honoured with numerous awards including the Medlicott Medal for services to history, Europe's Cultural Heritage Prize and an OBE for services to history.

Professor Caillan Davenport is Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University. Caillan has an undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Queensland and a doctorate in ancient history from Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has recently been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for the project 'Why Monarchy Endures. Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. He is a regular contributor to the ‘Emperors of Rome Podcast’, which was named Best Australian History Podcast in 2019 by Apple. A prolific author, his next book, Talking about the Caesars: How Romans Imagined their Emperors, is forthcoming with Yale University Press.