Francesco Mari is a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient History. He has pursued his research in Jerusalem and Berlin and is particularly interested in social interaction in archaic and classical Greece and diplomatic rituals in ancient international relations.
Christian Wendt is Professor of Ancient History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His main research interests cover Ancient historiography (especially Thucydides), political thought in Antiquity, Ancient inter-State contact and the role of the sea in Ancient societies.