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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64	2
Introduction	1
The problem of local epiclesis abroad: a case study of the worship of Apollo Pythios on the island of Kea	1
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	1
Some problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’	1
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
Being everybody’s slaves? Framing the issue	0
Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond	0
The scholiast as poet: Tzetzes and his Allegories of the Iliad	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
‘The Alexandrian scholar poets are our ancestors’: ancient scholarship and modern self-perception	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
Public slavery in the precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana)	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Epilogue	0
Bibliography	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0

Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad	0
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Acknowledgements	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
The legal capacity of public slaves in the Roman empire	0
General Index	0
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Inherited institution: Ottoman state slavery and war captives in the early modern era	0
Fabius Maximus Rullianus and the capture of Gavius Pontius: Livy’s book 11 and the last years of the Third Samnite War	0
Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Foreword	0
Bibliography	0
Exegetical dialogue through compilation: examples from the h-family of the Iliad scholia	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē: visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
‘All human beings are either free or slave’? Servi publici in Late Antiquity	0
Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
Bibliographies	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
Iudicia Dei. Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
‘In defence of the empire’: Mauritius’ government slaves in eighteenth-century Mauritius	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
Nicanor: more than a punctuator	0
List of Abbreviations	0
Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
Homeric scholarship in the pulpit: the case of Eustathius’ sermons	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Abstracts	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	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
Bibliography	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0

Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	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
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
Aristarchus in his own words? What his ‘most secure’ fragments can tell us about Aristarchus’ commentaries and their transmission	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Effective management of public slavery in Hospitallers’ Malta	0
Translating Homeric scholia: five case studies from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
Acknowledgements	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
The end of latifundia: development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
Check your privilege: reconsidering the social position of public slaves in the cities of the Roman Empire	0
Reflections on public slavery and social death	0