Tyler T. Travillian is Chair of the Foreign Languages and the Literature departments at Northwest Classical Academy. He is the author of Pliny the Elder: Natural History VII as well as articles on the emperor Hadrian, the odes of Horace, and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra.

Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen is Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History at Pacific Lutheran University (USA). She is the author of John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow: Authority and Autonomy at the End of the Antique World, and articles on Byzantine healing shrines, productive suffering, and charity.