Erica Angliker (PhD, University of Zurich), an archaeologist and art historian specializing in island studies and ancient Greek religion, is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Unicamp-IdEA) and a scientific member of the Despotiko excavations. Her publications address religion, writing and materiality, the Cyclades, and panhellenic sites.

Pierre Bonnechere, now associate professor at Uppsala, was professor at the University of Montreal. He studies the communication between gods and men in Graeco-Roman mentalities, and their representation: sacrifice, oracles and divination, sacred groves. His current project investigates the perception of such contacts through the image of whirling and turning around.

Hugh Bowden is Professor of Ancient History at King’s College London, where he has worked since 1989. He is the author of books on the oracle of Delphi, ancient mystery cults and Alexander the Great. The main focus of his research is religious experience in the ancient world.

Diego Chapinal-Heras is Ramón y Cajal Postdoctoral Fellow, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. His main area of research is the study of Greek sanctuaries and their historical and political context, primarily Dodona in Epirus and Dion in Macedonia. A second topic of his research is Greek oracles.

Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol. She works on ancient Greek culture and literature, especially religion and magic, and has published widely in this area. Most recently, she designed and led the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Virtual Reality Oracle project (vroracle.co.uk).

Michael A. Flower is the David Magie ’97 Class of 1897 Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His publications include Theopompus of Chios; Herodotus, Histories, Book IX (with John Marincola); The Seer in Ancient Greece; Xenophon’s Anabasis, or the Expedition of Cyrus; and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon.

Katerina Kolotourou is an archaeologist, a musician, and a scientific member of the Greek Archaeological Committee’s excavations at Mycenae (Argolid) and at Oropos (East Attica). Her research and publications focus on music archaeology, religion, material agency, cognition, and cultural interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Jessica Piccinini is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Macerata. Her research interests focus on the history of Epirus, the Adriatic Sea in Graeco-Roman times and Greek epigraphy. After her monograph, The Shrine of Dodona in the Archaic and Classical Age. A History, she has co-edited the volume Roma e le province tra integrazione e dissenso.

Christopher Schliephake is Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Augsburg. He is the author of The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World (Cambridge Elements) and is currently working on a new environmental history of antiquity. He is the main coordinator of the DFG-sponsored research network Resources of Resilience in the Ancient World.

Eleni Vasileiou is a curator of Antiquities of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina, Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She has excavated widely, and her scientific interest focuses on prehistoric pottery, topography and burial customs. Her publications explore Public Archaeology, as well as the history and archaeology of Epirus.