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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	1
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	1
The end of latifundia: development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	1
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	1
Acknowledgements	1
A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64	0
Aristarchus in his own words? What his ‘most secure’ fragments can tell us about Aristarchus’ commentaries and their transmission	0
Reflections on public slavery and social death	0
Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
Epilogue	0
Acknowledgements	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	0
Check your privilege: reconsidering the social position of public slaves in the cities of the Roman Empire	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond	0
Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
For an African elenchus: colonial and postcolonial misprisions and Classics in Africa	0
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
The legal capacity of public slaves in the Roman empire	0

Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0
Translating Homeric scholia: five case studies from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
Bibliography	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0
Bibliography	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
List of Abbreviations	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
The problem of local epiclesis abroad: a case study of the worship of Apollo Pythios on the island of Kea	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
Fabius Maximus Rullianus and the capture of Gavius Pontius: Livy’s book 11 and the last years of the Third Samnite War	0
‘In defence of the empire’: Mauritius’ government slaves in eighteenth-century Mauritius	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong	0
‘All human beings are either free or slave’? Servi publici in Late Antiquity	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi	0
Public slavery in the precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana)	0
Exegetical dialogue through compilation: examples from the h-family of the Iliad scholia	0
The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing	0
Being everybody’s slaves? Framing the issue	0
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
General Index	0
Effective management of public slavery in Hospitallers’ Malta	0
‘The Alexandrian scholar poets are our ancestors’: ancient scholarship and modern self-perception	0
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Inherited institution: Ottoman state slavery and war captives in the early modern era	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Homeric scholarship in the pulpit: the case of Eustathius’ sermons	0
Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Abstracts	0
Bibliography	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Introduction	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē: visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0

Some problems in the ‘Deception of Zeus’	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
The scholiast as poet: Tzetzes and his Allegories of the Iliad	0
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	0
Nicanor: more than a punctuator	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
Bibliographies	0
Foreword	0