Rebecca Flemming is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the Classics Faculty of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College, UK. A specialist in the society and culture of the Roman Empire, she has published widely on classical medicine, gender and sexuality, both together and separately. Her monograph Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen came out from Oxford University Press in 2000; the volume she co-edited with Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell, Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.

Laurence Totelin is Reader in Ancient History at Cardiff University, UK. She specialises in the history of Greek and Roman pharmacology, botany and gynaecology. Her works include Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece (Brill, 2009) and, with botanist Gavin Hardy, Ancient Botany (Routledge, 2016). She is currently working on the trade in medicines in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, on which she is preparing the volume Retail Therapy (Routledge).