Classical Philology

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual3
Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses2
“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith1
:Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue1
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Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns1
Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism1
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Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom inAeneid101
On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)1
Filling In Some Gaps: Misunderstood Jokes in Priapea 12.15 and Catullus 25.51
Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works1
Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space1
Moretvm 45: An Emendation1
Deceptive Oratory: Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57–198)1
Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 27541
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’sBellum civileBook 91
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Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’Persians1
Introduction: Philology Transfigured1
Ismene’s Hat: SophoclesOedipus at Colonus313–141
The Secondary Incipit of theOdyssey(Od.9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer0
The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy0
Apollonius Dyscolus’ Treatise On the Pronoun or On Pronouns? Troubles with the Text’s Transmission0
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To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’Trojan Women0
Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini0
The Politics of Position: Localization and Disruption in the Homeric Hexameter0
Me nunc secuntur: Inevitability and Inheritance in Seneca’s Phoenissae0
Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek0
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle’s Constitutional Theory0
:Style and Necessity in Thucydides0
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The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?0
Sappho’s Second Book0
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Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian0
Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul0
Galen and the Parchment Codex: A Note on the Text of De indolentia 330
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Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)0
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’De rerum natura0
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Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’Oresteia0
:Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period0
Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses0
Horace in La-la Land: The Pure Poetry of Odes 1.22 and 2.50
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Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius0
No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-OvidianMetamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum0
The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–620
Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?0
Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women0
:The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic0
:Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700–300 BCE0
Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.1370
Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–660
Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias0
Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note onLysistrata5280
:Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler0
Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)0
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Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy0
Servile Affluence at Rome: Enslavers’ Gift or Slaves’ Achievement?0
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To Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad0
Viewing Jerusalem in theLetter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire0
:Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois0
The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy0
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus: Homeric Influence and the Writing Of History0
Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities0
Stoic Allegoresis: The Problem of Definition and Influence0
More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314–36)0
The Presbeutikos Logos and the Hippocratic Corpus0
Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 840
Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M0
Varro and the Romulean Tribes0
Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’Augeat Philyllius Fragment 40
Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities0
Re-Viewing Ariadne: Catullus’ Coverlet in a Single Frame0
Resonances with Hector in Homer’s Odyssey: New Criticism of Odysseus’ Controversial Leadership0
The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus0
Meleager and Catullus at VergilEclogue1.550
New Perspectives on the Meaning of cum galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)0
Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)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
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
Authorship Analysis and the Authenticity of Euripides’ Electra 518–44: Preserving Character Consistency0
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens. By Edwin Carawan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.0
A Macedonian Deditio? Philip V and the Missing Foedus with the Romans in 197/196 BCE0
Non-EliteExemplaandPietasin Livy’s First Pentad0
:Disability Studies and the Classical Body0
Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity0
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. [ix] + 327.0
Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: CononNarratives450
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
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II0
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Two Recent Books on Statius0
Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of LucretiusDe rerum natura1.936–500
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method0
Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–940
:Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer0
The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry0
From Classroom to Codex: The Materiality of the Minor Declamations0
:A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome0
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology0
The Etymology of Carrago: Germanic or Latin?0
The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 70
ExtrametricalΝΑΙandΕΙΕΝin Greek Tragedy0
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.8150
Doubtful Weather: An Acrostic in Calpurnius Siculus 5.45–490
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Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–220
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:Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE0
Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems0
Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells0
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes0
:Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens0
Cicero’s Ideal Statesman as the Helmsman of the Ship of State0
Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS0
Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits0
Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair0
Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross0
A New Hypothesis on the Geographical Setting of Aeschylus’ Psychagogoi0
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The Most Expensive Slave in Rome: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis0
:Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia0
Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England0
Matronymics at Work: Female Succession Techniques in Lucian’s Dialogi meretricii and Some Early Thecla Literature0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius I0
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold0
On Aristotle in Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms: An Assessment of Possible Sources0
Sacred Time: Grief and Its Limits in the Aeneid0
Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality0
Hesychiain Thucydides0
:Steely-eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists0
Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.70
Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.60
“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur.Phoen.10)0
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in theHedypatheiaof Archestratos0
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Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)0
“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Queer Afterlives of Orpheus0
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A Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion inAeneid11.399–4090
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Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)0
Bacchae’s Queer Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral0
:Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints0
Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?0
Rome’s Best Man: TheVir OptimusDebate of 204 BCE and the Study of Roman Masculinity0
Hesiod Theogony 8230
Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary0
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State. By Hans Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. [xiii] + 267.0
Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?0
Making Sense of Plato’s Taste0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory0
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)0
Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’Metamorphoses0
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Epicureanism in Pro Caelio (Cic. Cael. 42 and Epicurus Frag. 67 U., 22.1 A.)0
Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered0
Poetics of the First Punic War. By Thomas Biggs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xv] + 247.0
Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals0
Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes0
Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 20
Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–300
A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?0
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Virgil’s meliorsed Construction0
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Three Homeric Water Similes in Aelius Aristides’ Corpus: Knowledge, Affect, Language0
Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea0
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be0
Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.420
The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues0
Fragmentary Texts and the Limits of Literary Reference: Ennius’ Hannibal and Cicero’s Pro Balbo in Lucan’s Bellum civile0
Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note0
:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance0
Servilium Litterarum: A Note on the Text of Seneca’s De tranquillitate animi 9.50
Revi**sceret: A Textual Note on Tacitus Annales 13.58.10
The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades0
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A Fragment of Aristotle in the Hesiodic Scholia0
The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)0
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:Homer’s Living Language: Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry0
:Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire0
Escaping Cicero: “Dionysius” and the Limits of the Archive0
The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy0
Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity. By Joseph Farrell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 360.0
Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)0
Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis0
Diodorus Siculus and the Purgos at Tyre: Did Alexander Put Towers on Ships?0
A Note on Fate at Catullus 64.3200
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A Verbal Symbolon of Shared Exclusion-Inclusion: The Sobriety of Oedipus and the Eumenides in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1000
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part II: Positive Mental Changes0
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’Agamemnonand Sophocles’Trachiniae0
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Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement0
My Greek Anthology0
Some Notes and Observations on theTbilisi Hymn to Dionysus(P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)0
Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’sOedipus El Rey0
Aristotelian Zoology in the First and Second Centuries CE0
A. B. Yehoshua’s Queer Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture0
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