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Papers

(The median citation count of Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64	2
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	1
Spatial memory in the early Athenian inscribed public honours	1
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	1
Spoiled terminology: ‘Inhabited reuse’ as an alternative paradigm to spolia and other concepts for antiquities reuse in the Ottoman Empire and beyond	1
The problem of local epiclesis abroad: a case study of the worship of Apollo Pythios on the island of Kea	1
Orosius in Hebrew? Sefer Yosippon 8 (ח) & the sources of its Cyrus-vs-Scythians narrative between Orosius (2.7) and Herodotus (1.201–15)	1
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
Doing things with Thucydides: a global approach	0
Fragmenta Britannica VI. Some epigraphic aspects of East Greek pottery from Naukratis	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana	0
Numidia and Rome	0
An empire of blood: Orosius and Alexander the Great	0
Milan cake-eaters or Athenian cake-stealers?	0
The end of latifundia: development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Experiencing Roman picture galleries from Pompeii and Assisi as library spaces	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0

Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Abstracts	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
Iudicia Dei . Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
The Kingdoms of Numidia and Rome (218–41 Bce )	0
The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing	0
Fabius Maximus Rullianus and the capture of Gavius Pontius: Livy’s book 11 and the last years of the Third Samnite War	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond	0
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra	0
Bibliography	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
Many-headed song: Configuring the lyric chorus as a group mind	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
For an African elenchus: colonial and postcolonial misprisions and Classics in Africa	0
Translatio imperii et studii : Translating Orosius’s Histories and the making of Old English	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0
A female slave dealer? CIL 6.399 and the traffic of Syrians to Italy	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0
Speaking of dissimulatio: Tiberius’ words in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
The Algerian Afterlife of Apuleius the (Half-)Numidian	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South	0
Reclaiming Massinissa: Twentieth-century Algerian nationalist historians and the ancient Numidian past	0
More Roman than the Romans: neoclassical genocide in French Numidia	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
Introduction	0
Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē: visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0
Average Otherness? Numidia and Numidians in Sallust and Livy	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
I moderni Numidi: Numidia, Numidians, and modern Italian imperialism	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
Caesar—Lucan—Addison: Three moments in the history of racializing ancient Numidians	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
Bibliographies	0

Making gods real through choral dance	0
Epilogue	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
List of Abbreviations	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Orosius in al-Andalus	0
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
General Index	0
Shaping comedy: Plassō in the Scholia Vetera on Aristophanes and its intellectual background	0
Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi	0
A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Foreword	0
Character portrayal, good and bad, in the speeches of Isaeus	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
Beyond the sophisms: Characterization and proof in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy	0