Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her previous books (Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore and the Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life) were published to great critical acclaim and worldwide success.

Hughes has made a number of factual films and documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC. She is a Research Fellow of King's College London and has been honoured with numerous awards including the Norton Medlicott Medal for History.