Dr Angeliki Kottaridi studied Archaeology and History of Art at the Philosophical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Having received a scholarship by the German state, she continued her studies in Classical, Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient and Medieval Literature, Ethnology and Theatrology at the University of Cologne, where she earned her PhD. She has worked for several years as an assistant of Manolis Andronikos at the excavation of Agai, the royal capital of ancient Macedon and in 1991 she joined the staff of the Greek Ministry of Culture. Dr Angeliki Kottaridi is the director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia and director of the Museum of Aigai -the royal capital of ancient Macedon, a world heritage site (UNESCO)- as well as of the Archaeological and the Byzantine museums of Veroia. She initiated and since 2011 is responsible for the creation of the online museum “Alexander the Great, from Aigai to the World”.

Professor Robin Lane Fox is a classicist, ancient historian, and writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College from 1977 to 2014, he serves as Garden Master and as Extraordinary Lecturer in Ancient History for both New and Exeter Colleges. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history. His major publications, for which he has won literary prizes including the James Tait Black Award, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Heinemann Award and the Runciman Award, include studies of Alexander the Great and Ancient Macedon, Late Antiquity, Christianity and Paganism, the Bible and history, and the Greek Dark Ages. His most recent book, in 2015, concerns the patristic author Augustine of Hippo. Lane Fox is also the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times.