Alex Purves is Professor of Classics at UCLA. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Literature (Cambridge 2010) and Homer and the Poetics of Gesture (Oxford 2019). She teaches classes on Ancient Greek Language, Literature, and Culture as well as GE courses on The Fantastic Journey and Classical Mythology.

Ariel Sabar is an award-winning journalist and the author of Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and This American Life. His first book, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Twitter: @arielsabar

Mark Jickling, Chris Mason, and Liz Downing translate Archaic Greek poems (7 - 4th Century B.C.) and put them to music

Diane is a Professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University. Her book on Sappho is referenced below. Look out for her updated paperback & audio versions in 2021. | Rayor, Diane. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction & notes by André Lardinois.

Jade Esteban Estrada is an American journalist, radio personality and stand-up comedian. Out Magazine christened him as "the first gay Latin star." Sappho was featured in his 2000 hit show, ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World. Twitter: @getjaded

Jane Montgomery Griffiths is an actor, writer and academic. Currently Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance, Jane is an expert on Greek drama and theories of performance, and has taught at Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne, and La Trobe universities. She is also the writer of the one-woman show, Sappho...in 9 Fragments. Twitter: @janegriffiths10

Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor in Roman History and Classics at the University of Toronto. Her work centres on the socio-economic and environmental history of Roman Egypt, as well as on the entanglements between imperialism, colonialism, Orientalism and Antiquity-related disciplines. She is a co-founder and co-editor of the blog Everyday Orientalism. Twitter: @isisnaucratis

Our theme song, Oson Zeis, is by Lyre 'n' Rhapsody, a female ensemble based in Athens, Greece, consisting of Aliki on Archea Lyra, Areti on percussions Dauli and Stamna, and Athena and Diana as vocals. Their first album is inspired by lyrics and songs from Ancient Greece, The ensemble first album was released on May 15 2013.

Malcolm Choat is Professor of History and Head of Department of History and Archaeology in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. His current research interests centre on discourses of authenticity, debates over cultural heritage, and the reception of the ancient world, as well as papyrology and the history of Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Twitter: @malfy_c

Mike Sampson is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. His article "Deconstructing the Provenances of P.Sapph.Obbink" appeared in volume 57 of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (2020).

Marguerite Johnson is Professor of Classics at The University of Newcastle, Australia. She is a cultural historian, working on sexuality and gender in the ancient Mediterranean, and has published on Sappho. Twitter: @MMJ722

Roberta Mazza is a papyrologist and lecturer in Graeco-Roman material culture at the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology of the University of Manchester. She has worked on late antiquity and Christianity in Egypt and has published papyri from the John Rylands collection; her recent research and publications focus on the ethics of public and private collecting of Egyptian manuscripts and the academics’ involvement with the antiquities market. You can find her on Twitter @papyrologyatman

Sandra Boehringer is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, where she teaches Greek history and the history of women and gender. She also works at ESPE as part of its training courses on gender equality in school and in the fight against discrimination. Her work focuses on questions of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. She is currently participating in the Eurykleia collective project, a database which aims to collect information on women from ancient societies.

Dr. Tracey L. Walters is Associate Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University where she also holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Dr. Walters works in the areas of African American Women’s Literature Black British literature. She is the co-host of the Black GIrls with Accents podcast. Instagram: @blackgirlswithaccents

Usama is an Egyptian classicists & digital humanist specialized in papyrology. You can find him on Twitter @usamaligad