Sara Borrello is a PhD Candidate in Ancient History at Newcastle University, award-holder of an AHRC Full Studentship (Northern Bridge Consortium). Her PhD project is titled 'Children in Politics. Family Strategies during the Roman Republic (3rd - 1st Century BCE)'. Her research interests focus on the political history of the Roman Republic, Roman matrons and female figures, Roman historiography and Latin epigraphy. She is the author of: Prudentissima et diligentissima femina. Servilia, M. Bruti mater, tra Cesariani e Cesaridici, in F. Cenerini – F. Rohr Vio (eds.), Matronae in domo et in re publica agentes. Spazi e occasioni dell’azione femminile nel mondo romano fra tarda repubblica e primo impero, Trieste 2016, pp. 165-191; Enim vocata est mamma. Affettività e appartenenza famigliare nell’epigrafia latina, “ZPE” 205, 2018, forthcoming.

Roberto Ciucciovè is a PhD Candidate in Ancient history at Newcastle University. His thesis is titled The Res Publica of the Tribunes. Tribunician Legislation and the Political Strategies of the Roman Mid-Republican Elite (218-180 BC), and his research interests deal with Mid-republican Rome, Roman political history, Roman historiography, History of Marxism and of the Italian Communist Party.

Luigi Di Iorio is a PhD Candidate in Classics and Ancient History at Università di Roma Tor Vergata with a project titled Gestire la terra pubblica: fonti letterarie, fonti epigrafiche e dati archeologici per la ricostruzione della storia agraria repubblicana (V-II secolo a.C.) (Public land management: literary and epigraphic sources, and archaeological data for a reconstruction of the republican agrarian history). His research interests deal with the ancient Roman economy, public policies in the republican Rome, ancient and modern demography, landscape archaeology and history of Roman law.

Emilio Zucchetti is a PhD Candidate in Classics and Ancient History at Newcastle University, fully funded by the AHRC (Northern Bridge Consortium). He is currently working on a thesis titled Unrest in the Roman Republic and the Early Principate: Discordia and discordiae between Repression, Accommodation and Consensus-Building. His research interests deal with cultural aspects of the social and political history of the Roman Republic, focusing on masses' and contestatory politics, Latin literature, classical philology and texts' transmission, political theory, post-Marxism and the philosophy of History.