Dino Piovan, Ph.D. (2009), University of Pisa, is adjunct professor of Greek at the University of Verona. He has published several articles and books on ancient Greek literature and history, and on the reception of the classics, including Memoria e oblio della guerra civile (2011) and Tucidide in Europa (2018); he is also co-author of Con parole alate, a history of ancient Greek literature (with texts) in three volumes (2020).
Giovanni Giorgini is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous essays on the history of political thought and contemporary liberal theory, including La città e il tiranno (1993), Liberalismi eretici (1999), I doni di Pandora (2002) and a translation of Plato's Politicus (2005); he has also co-edited The Roots of Respect (2017).

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic.