The initiative is led by David Aubin, professor of history of science at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sorbonne University and member of the Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche Mathematics Institute (IMJ-PRG), and by Nathalie Rousseau, lecturer in Greek linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Languages, Literature and Humanities of Sorbonne University and member of the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory (UMR 8167).