Demokratia and Res Publica

Kostas Buraselis is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Athens and Former Vice-Rector and Special Adviser of the Rectorate on Academic Affairs and International Relations at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written many monographs on various topics of the Hellenistic and Roman History (for example, ''Das hellenistische Makedonien und die Agais'', Munich, 1982, ''Theia Dorea: Studies on the Policy of the Severans and the Constitutio Antoniniana'', Athens -Academy 1989 in Greek with an English summary, German edition of Vienna 2007, ''Kos between Hellenism and Rome'', Philadelphia 2000). He has also contributed in the chapters ''Heroization'' and ''Apotheosis'' of ThesCRA vol. II (2004). His main interests include: Political and institutional history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman imperial period in the Greek East, ancient ruler cult, modern historiograhy on the ancient world.

Francesco Camia is Professor of Greek Epigraphy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. A former student of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (2001-2003), from 2008 to 2015 he was Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. His research activity is focused on the study of the Greek world during the Roman period, with a specific focus on the religious landscapes of cities (cultic, social and institutional aspects) and their economic and financial implications. He has dealt in depth with the Roman imperial cult in Greece, a topic on which he has published various articles and the monograph Theoi Sebastoi. Il culto degli imperatori romani in Grecia (provincia Achaia) nel secondo secolo d.C. (2011). He is also the author of Roma e le poleis. L’intervento di Roma nelle controversie territoriali tra le comunità greche di Grecia e d’Asia Minore nel secondo secolo a.C.: le testimonianze epigrafiche (2009). 

Adolfo Jerónimo Domínguez Monedero is professor of Ancient History at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research has focused on the study of archaic Greece, mainly the Greek colonizations in the western Mediterranean. Likewise, he has devoted himself to the study of the problems of ancient geography and to the knowledge of the pre-Roman populations of the Iberian Peninsula. He is the writer of many monographs, such as ''Colonización griega y mundo funerario indígena en el Mediterráneo Occidental'' (Madrid, 1987), ''Griegos, indígenas y púnicos en la Sicilia Arcaica: integración y aculturación'' (Oxford, 1989), ''La polis y la expansión colonial griega (siglos VIII-VI)'', Madrid, Editorial Síntesis, 1991.