Brian McGing is Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is co-director of the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, a research project studying the interchange between east and west in the ancient world, and funded under the Irish Government's Programme for Research in Third Level Institutes. His main research interests are Hellenistic Asia Minor and Greco-Roman Egypt. He is currently working on a book on Polybius. Judith Mossmann is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She was previously Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and an associate of the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies. She has published a number of articles on Plutarch and has also edited a volume of essays entitled Plutarch and his Intellectual World (1997). She also writes books and articles on aspects of Greek Tragedy, especially Euripides.