Laokoon, or: On the Boundaries of Painting and Poetry

Rosamond Deborah McKitterick (born 31 May 1949) is an English medieval historian. She is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge

Roger Paulin took his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1965 and his Cambridge Litt. D. in 1987. He taught at Birmingham and Bristol before coming to Cambridge in 1974 as a University Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity. From 1987 to 1989 he was Henry Simon Professor of German in the University of Manchester. From 1989 to 2005 he was Schröder Professor of German in Cambridge and is a Fellow of Trinity. From 1989 to 1996 he was Head of Department. He retired in 2005. He received a Humboldtpreis in 2002. In 2011 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

Michael Squire is Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests include Greek and Roman material and visual culture, the history of aesthetics, the interrelations between words and images and the reception of classical forms.

George Pliotis received his PhD in Classics (specialising in Latin Literature) from the University of Cambridge, where he continues to teach a wide variety of papers in Latin Language and Literature.