Johan C. Thom (Herausgegeben von) Born 1954; Studied at the Universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria, and Chicago; 1990 PhD; Professor of Classics at the University of Stellenbosch.Renate Burri (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) ist Doktorandin in Klassischer Philologie an der Universität Göttingen.Clive Chandler (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) teaches in the Classics Section of the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. His research interests lie in the intellectual history of Greece (especially, but not exclusively, Epicurean philosophy), rhetoric, and ancient commentaries on Homer.Hans Daiber (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) was holder of the chair of Oriental Languages at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His main fields are Arabic and Islamic Studies, including Islamic philosophy, theology, history sciences and the field of Greek / Syriac / Arabic / Latin translations as well as analyzing and describing Arabic manuscripts.Jill Kraye (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) is an Honorary Fellow and former Librarian of the Warburg Institute, University of London. She specializes in the history of Renaissance philosophy and humanism, with a particular interest in the later influence of the ancient philosophical schools.Andrew Smith (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) was Professor of Classics, University College Dublin. He is Associate Director of the Plato Centre, Trinity College Dublin, and joint editor of a series of philosophical commentaries on Plotinus.Hidemi Takahashi (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) teaches in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Tokyo. His main field of research is in Syriac Studies, especially the reception of the Greek sciences in Syriac and the works of the thirteenth-century author Gregory Barhebraeus.Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser (Mit / Unter Mitarbeit von) is lecturer of Ancient Greek at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Heidelberg. Among her scholarly interests are early Christian literature (especially Origen) and the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the first centuries AD. She has also worked on Augustine’s polemic against the Semi-Pelagians.