Paul J. Kosmin read Ancient and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, and took his PhD in Ancient History at Harvard University, where he is now Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History. The core of his work to date has focused on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the east Mediterranean and west Asia in the Hellenistic period.
Ian S. Moyer studied Classics at the University of Victoria, and completed his PhD in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He now teaches in the History Department at the University of Michigan, and his research traces political, cultural, and intellectual interactions between Egypt and the ancient Greek world.