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Papers

(The TQCC of Classical Philology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual	3
Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses	2
Deceptive Oratory: Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57–198)	1
Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism	1
“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith	1
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’sBellum civileBook 9	1
Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom inAeneid10	1
Ismene’s Hat: SophoclesOedipus at Colonus313–14	1
Epigraphy and Collective Memory: Cicero and the War Booty Inscriptions	1
Moretvm 45: An Emendation	1
Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space	1
Introduction: Philology Transfigured	1
States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War. By David C. Yates. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xx] + 337.	1
On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)	1
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Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 2754	1
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Varro and the Romulean Tribes	0
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Apuleius’ Invisible Ass: Encounters with the Unseen in the “Metamorphoses.” By Geoffrey C. Benson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [xi] + 299.	0
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The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus: Homeric Influence and the Writing Of History	0
The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades	0
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:Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire	0
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:Homer’s Living Language: Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry	0
New Perspectives on the Meaning of cum galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)	0
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The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)	0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II	0
“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur.Phoen.10)	0
Galen and the Parchment Codex: A Note on the Text of De indolentia 33	0
Diodorus Siculus and the Purgos at Tyre: Did Alexander Put Towers on Ships?	0
A Verbal Symbolon of Shared Exclusion-Inclusion: The Sobriety of Oedipus and the Eumenides in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 100	0
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The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues	0
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Staging Literary History in Old Comedy	0
Poetics of the First Punic War. By Thomas Biggs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xv] + 247.	0
:Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia	0
Hesiod Theogony 823	0
Revisceret: A Textual Note on Tacitus Annales 13.58.1	0
To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’Trojan Women	0
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in theHedypatheiaof Archestratos	0
Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities	0
Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity	0
Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–30	0
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The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey.” By Alexander C. Loney. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xii] + 265.	0
The Most Expensive Slave in Rome: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis	0
Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note	0
ExtrametricalΝΑΙandΕΙΕΝin Greek Tragedy	0
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The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry	0
Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)	0
Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’Oresteia	0
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Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis	0
Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality	0
Cicero’s Ideal Statesman as the Helmsman of the Ship of State	0
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be	0
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology	0
Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works	0
Fragmentary Texts and the Limits of Literary Reference: Ennius’ Hannibal and Cicero’s Pro Balbo in Lucan’s Bellum civile	0
Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)	0
Three Homeric Water Similes in Aelius Aristides’ Corpus: Knowledge, Affect, Language	0
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:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance	0
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Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul	0

Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias	0
Non-EliteExemplaandPietasin Livy’s First Pentad	0
A Fragment of Aristotle in the Hesiodic Scholia	0
Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy	0
Servilium Litterarum: A Note on the Text of Seneca’s De tranquillitate animi 9.5	0
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Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.137	0
Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.7	0
Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary	0
Escaping Cicero: “Dionysius” and the Limits of the Archive	0
Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry. By Michael Clarke. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [xxv] + 385.	0
The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy	0
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Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. [ix] + 327.	0
A New Hypothesis on the Geographical Setting of Aeschylus’ Psychagogoi	0
Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’Augeat Philyllius Fragment 4	0
Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M	0
Me nunc secuntur: Inevitability and Inheritance in Seneca’s Phoenissae	0
Revisiting the Authenticity of Porphyry’s Introduction to Ptolemy’s “Apotelesmatics”	0
Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?	0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory	0
:Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois	0
Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)	0
Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement	0
Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’Metamorphoses	0
My Greek Anthology	0
Bacchae’s Queer Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral	0
Re-Viewing Ariadne: Catullus’ Coverlet in a Single Frame	0
A Macedonian Deditio? Philip V and the Missing Foedus with the Romans in 197/196 BCE	0
:Steely-eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists	0
Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered	0
The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy	0
Getting Bronze in the Sun: Making Sense of the Remains of Plautus’Vidularia	0
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence. By Mathias Hanses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xiv] + 412.	0
:A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome	0
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Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.42	0
Resonances with Hector in Homer’s Odyssey: New Criticism of Odysseus’ Controversial Leadership	0
:Disability Studies and the Classical Body	0
Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: CononNarratives45	0
Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.6	0
Making Sense of Plato’s Taste	0
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State. By Hans Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. [xiii] + 267.	0
Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’sOedipus El Rey	0
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Epicureanism in Pro Caelio (Cic. Cael. 42 and Epicurus Frag. 67 U., 22.1 A.)	0
Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses	0
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Virgil’s melior … sed Construction	0
The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians. Edited by Paul Cartledge and Anton Powell. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2018. Pp. [x] + 239.	0
Hesychiain Thucydides	0
Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)	0
Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius	0
Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals	0
Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns	0
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What A Feeling! Painting and The Origin of “Nothing to do With Dionysus”	0
Apollonius Dyscolus’ Treatise On the Pronoun or On Pronouns? Troubles with the Text’s Transmission	0
Matronymics at Work: Female Succession Techniques in Lucian’s Dialogi meretricii and Some Early Thecla Literature	0
Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini	0
Filling In Some Gaps: Misunderstood Jokes in Priapea 12.15 and Catullus 25.5	0
Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–66	0
Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair	0
Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS	0
Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?	0
:Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period	0
Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note onLysistrata528	0
:The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic	0
“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Queer Afterlives of Orpheus	0
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Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England	0
A Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion inAeneid11.399–409	0
A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?	0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius I	0
Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities	0
The Politics of Position: Localization and Disruption in the Homeric Hexameter	0
Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)	0
Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)	0
Statius’ Silvae 4.8 and 4.9: The Poet’s Anger and Patronage	0

The Secondary Incipit of theOdyssey(Od.9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer	0
A Note on Fate at Catullus 64.320	0
Doubtful Weather: An Acrostic in Calpurnius Siculus 5.45–49	0
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Some Notes and Observations on theTbilisi Hymn to Dionysus(P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)	0
:Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE	0
Rome’s Best Man: TheVir OptimusDebate of 204 BCE and the Study of Roman Masculinity	0
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle’s Constitutional Theory	0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part I: The Athenian Inmate Population	0
The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?	0
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold	0
Ekphrastic Games: Ovid, the Gorgoneion, and the Invisible Shield	0
The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus	0
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method	0
Meleager and Catullus at VergilEclogue1.55	0
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Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity. By Joseph Farrell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 360.	0
Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek	0
Servile Affluence at Rome: Enslavers’ Gift or Slaves’ Achievement?	0
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens. By Edwin Carawan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.	0
Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes	0
:Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints	0
Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–22	0
The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy	0
Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of LucretiusDe rerum natura1.936–50	0
From Classroom to Codex: The Materiality of the Minor Declamations	0
:Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700–300 BCE	0
:Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens	0
Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?	0
Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women	0
The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–62	0
:Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer	0
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Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)	0
Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian	0
Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 2	0
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No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-OvidianMetamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum	0
Viewing Jerusalem in theLetter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire	0
More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314–36)	0
Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–94	0
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.815	0
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’De rerum natura	0
Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’Persians	0
Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross	0
Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells	0
Sappho’s Second Book	0
To Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad	0
Horace in La-la Land: The Pure Poetry of Odes 1.22 and 2.5	0
:Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue	0
The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 7	0
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Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems	0
On Aristotle in Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms: An Assessment of Possible Sources	0
Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits	0
Authorship Analysis and the Authenticity of Euripides’ Electra 518–44: Preserving Character Consistency	0
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes	0
A. B. Yehoshua’s Queer Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture	0
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’Agamemnonand Sophocles’Trachiniae	0
Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 84	0
Stoic Allegoresis: The Problem of Definition and Influence	0
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World	0