Caillan Davenport was educated at the University of Queensland, where he received a first-class Honours degree in Latin Language and Literature. He earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Alan Bowman, Camden Professor of Ancient History. A specialist in the political and military history of the Roman empire, his work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including Classical Quarterly, Zeitschrift f�r Papyrologie und Epigraphik and the Journal of Roman Archaeology.
Jennifer Manley has recently submitted her PhD in Classics at the Univerisyt of Queensland,focusing on the social history of illness as revealed through the letters of Cicero, Pliny the Younger and Fronto. After earning a first-class Honours degree in Latin language and Literature in 2004, she taught Latin at University and to private students. In 2009, she received the prestigious Mary McSweeney Commemorative Fellowship from the Australian Federation of University Women in recognition of her scholarly achievements.