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Vassilis Adrahtas teaches Islamic Studies at Western Sydney University and has taught at various other universities in Greece and Australia. He specialises in Early Christianity, Patristic Studies, Byzantine Philosophy, Islamic Studies, and Indigenous Australian Religions. Apart from a substantial number of articles in academic journals, numerous chapters in collective volumes, he has authored and/or edited more than ten books. His most recent publication, co-edited with Milad Milani, is Islam, Civility and Political Culture (2021).

Adam Afterman is a full professor at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University. He researches and publishes in the fields of Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Medieval Jewish Philosophy. He is the author of “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism (2016) and recently contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology (2020).

Lela Alexidze is Professor of History of Philosophy (Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance), Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. She is the author of books and articles on Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius), philosophical aspects of Greek patristics, Byzantine philosophy (Michael Psellos, Nicholas of Methone, Georgios Gemistos Plethon), Georgian medieval reception of ancient Greek philosophy, and Ioane Petritsi’s philosophy. She has translated selected texts from Pre-Socratics, Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus into Georgian, and Petritsi’s commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology from Georgian into German (together with Lutz Bergemann).

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides is Associate Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney. She leads an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on ‘Crises of leadership in the Eastern Roman Empire (250–1000 CE)’. Her research focuses on the use of mythic and religious motifs and metaphors in the Hellenistic and Augustan periods, as well as the reception of Greek philosophy in Christianity. She is the author of Eros and Ritual (2005, 2013) and Models of Kingship (2017). She has just completed a monograph on The History of Inebriation from Plato to Landino and is working on another book on Sexuality in Greek Epigrams and Later European Literature.

Georgios Arabatzis is Professor of Byzantine Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied philosophy at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and worked at the Research Centre on Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens. He has been a Visiting Scholar-Research Fellow at Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Helsinki, the University Charles in Prague, and the University of Jassy, Romania. Among his publications are Byzantine Philosophy and Iconology (2012 in Greek), and Anti-humanisme et discours institutionnel à Byzance: le cas Kekaumenos (2021).

Han Baltussen is the W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide. His research focuses on significant topics in intellectual history and philosophy. He is the author of Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato (2000), Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius (2008), and The Peripatetics (2016), editor of Greek and Roman Consolations (2013), and co-editor of Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Latin, and Arabic Commentaries (2004), The Art of Veiled Speech (2015). He recently contributed to The Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Literature (2018) and is preparing a new Loeb edition of Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists.

Valentina Calzolari is Professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Geneva and corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. She is the author of Apocrypha Armeniaca (2017), Les apôtres Thaddée et Barthélemy (2011), The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Armenian (2022), and (co-)editor of several volumes, including Armenian Philology in the Modern Era (2014) and L’œuvre de David l’Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque (2009). She specialises in late antique Armenian literature, with a particular interest in the transmission and reception of the Greek heritage in Armenia.

Michael Champion is Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University’s Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry. He is the author of Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza (2014) and Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education (2022). He has co-edited The Intellectual World of Christian Late Antiquity (with Lewis Ayres and Matthew Crawford; Cambridge, forthcoming) and volumes in the History of Emotions and History of Violence.

Anna Corrias is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, working on the reception of late ancient Platonism in the early modern period. Her interests lie in the history of Platonism and Platonic scholarship, ancient theories of the soul, and philosophical translations. She is the author of The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads (2020), the co-editor of different collected volumes, including the newly published Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period (2021), and of several articles.

Jesús de Garay is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Seville, Spain. He researches and publishes on Late Antiquity, Aristotelianism, and Neoplatonism. He is the author of Aristotelismo (2007). He has recently published in English ‘The Reception of Proclus: From Byzantium to the West (an Overview)’ in Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism (2017); ‘Mystery Religions and Philosophy in Proclus’ in Greek Philosophy and Mystery Religions (2016); ‘Difference and Negation. Plato’s Sophist in Proclus’ in Plato’s “Sophist” revisited (2013).

Omer Michaelis is Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University’s department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. Specialising in medieval Jewish thought and philosophy in the Islamicate world, he focuses on the dynamics of production, transmission, and integration of knowledge in medieval Judaism, and its intersection with parallel processes in the Islamic culture. He is the author of the forthcoming Crisis Discourse and the Dynamics of Tradition in Maimonides’ Oeuvre (2022).

Milad Milani is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Western Sydney University. He specialises in the study of Sufism and Islam through a comparative religious studies lens. His research draws on Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology, paying special attention to how historical religion is understood in present-day thinking about religion. He is the author of The Nature of Sufism: An Ontological Reading of the Mystical in Islam (2021), Sufi Political Thought (2018), and Sufism in the Secret History of Persia (2014), as well as co-editing with Vassilis Adrahtas, Islam, Civility and Political Culture (2021).

Graeme Miles is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Tasmania. He researches Greek literature (especially of the Roman Era) and philosophy (especially the Platonic tradition). He is the author of Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation (2018). With Dirk Baltzly and John F. Finamore he is currently producing the first English translation of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic, the second volume of which is due to appear in 2022. He is also currently completing with Han Baltussen a new Loeb of Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists and Eunapius’ Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists.

Ken Parry is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney. He researches and publishes in the fields of Late Antiquity, Byzantines Studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the author of Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (1996), and editor of The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (2015). He recently contributed to The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (2017), Brill’s A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm (2021), and is editing Brill’s Companion to John of Damascus (forthcoming).

Ilaria Ramelli Professor Ramelli, FRHistS, holds two MA s, a PhD, a Postdoc, and Habilitations to Ordinarius. She has been Professor of Roman History, Senior Visiting Professor (Harvard; Boston U.; Columbia; Erfurt), Full Professor of Theology and Endowed Chair (Angelicum), and Senior Fellow (Durham, twice; Princeton, 2017–; Sacred Heart U., 1998–; Corpus Christi; Christ Church, Oxford). She is also Professor of Theology and Patristics (Durham, Hon.; KUL) and Senior Fellow/Member (MWK; Bonn U. elect; Cambridge U.). Recent books include Apokatastasis (2013), Social Justice (2016), Patterns of Women’s Leadership (2021), Eriugena’s Christian Neoplatonism (2021) and Lovers of the Soul (2022).

Dionysios Skliris holds a doctorate from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, and Masters in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of London, and in Byzantine Literature from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Hellenic Open University. He has published On the Road to Being: Saint Maximus the Confessor’s Syn-odical Ontology (2018) and Logos–Mode–Telos: A Study in the Thought of Saint Maximus the Confessor (2018, in Greek). He is also the editor of the volume Slavoj Žižek and Christianity (2018).

Georgios Steiris is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously taught at the University of Peloponnese and the Hellenic Open University. He has been Visiting Professor at Jyväskylä University, Finland. He has served as Secretary General of the Greek Philosophical Society (2015–2016) and was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal “80 years of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University”. He co-edited the volumes Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite (2022).

Harold Tarrant is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, but now lives in the UK. With K.R. Jackson and K. Lycos, he translated Olympiodorus, Commentary on Plato’s Gorgias (1998) and has written several articles on Olympiodorus. Other publications include: The Platonic Alcibiades: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception (2015), co-authored with F. Renaud; two volumes of an English translation of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (2007, 2017); and, edited with D.A. Layne, D. Baltzly and F. Renaud, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018).

Peter Tarras teaches Judaic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and is Research Assistant at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. He is completing a PhD supervised by Peter Adamson, which focuses on the Muslim philosopher al-Fārābī and his eschatological notion of evil. His research interests include Arabic philosophy (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), the Arabic Bible, the cultural history of Christian and Jewish communities in the WANA region, as well as manuscript studies. He is co-editor of the Arabic and Latin Glossary (online) and co-editing a volume with Florian Jäckel on Free Will in Christian Arabic Thought.

Michele Trizio is Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, University of Bari, Italy. He researches and publishes in the field of Byzantine Studies. He is the author of Il neoplatonismo di Eustrazio di Nicea (2016), and the editor of Byzantine Theology and its Philosophical Background (2012), Theologica Minora. The Minor Genres of Byzantine Theological Literature (2013) and Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes and Projects (2019). He is also the co-editor of Brill’s Companion to Byzantine Philosophy (forthcoming).

Dimitrios A. Vasilakis is a one-year Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He researches and publishes in the fields of the history of Neoplatonism, Late Ancient Philosophy and Patristics. He is the author of Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy: Exploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite (2021). He recently contributed to Studia Patristica (2017), Proclus and his Legacy (2017), The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition (2019), Akropolis (2019), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (2019), Love—Ancient Perspectives. The Metochi Seminar (2021) and Religions (2021).

John W. Watt taught for many years at Cardiff University. His research is in Syriac literature, including Syriac appropriation of Greek philosophy in the late antique and early Islamic periods. His publications in this field include Aristotelian Rhetoric in Syriac: Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Book of Rhetoric (2005), Al-Farabi and the History of the Syriac Organon (2009), and two collections of articles, Rhetoric and Philosophy from Greek into Syriac (2010) and The Aristotelian Tradition in Syriac (2019). He wrote the entries on Sergius of Reshaina and Jacob of Edessa for the new ‘Ueberweg’ Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike (2018).

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