Phillip Horky is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University. His specialisms include the history of Platonism, Pythagoreanism, and the Presocratics. He has written a monograph, Plato and Pythagoreanism (Oxford, 2013), as well as edited a volume Cosmos in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2019). He has also written numerous articles on topics and figures ranging from theories of justice among the Socratics to the reception of Platonic philosophy in the writings of Antonio Gramsci. He is co-editor of the book series Cambridge Texts and Studies in Platonism, published by Cambridge University Press. 

Dr Mike Huxtable studied Philosophy and English at the University of York and has obtained Masters degrees in both subjects. He completed a doctorate in 2008 in Durham on the phenomenology of colour and its perception in medieval literature. Mike's research interests include medieval philosophy, theology and the history of ideas; the semiology of medieval art and culture (in particular heraldry), and the influence of visuality on literary creativity.