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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64	2
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
The problem of local epiclesis abroad: a case study of the worship of Apollo Pythios on the island of Kea	1
Bibliography	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Public slavery in the precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana)	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē: visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
The end of latifundia: development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
I moderni Numidi: Numidia, Numidians, and modern Italian imperialism	0

A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	0
Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
General Index	0
‘All human beings are either free or slave’? Servi publici in Late Antiquity	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
For an African elenchus: colonial and postcolonial misprisions and Classics in Africa	0
Iudicia Dei. Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
An empire of blood: Orosius and Alexander the Great	0
Bibliographies	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
Orosius in al-Andalus	0
Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
Check your privilege: reconsidering the social position of public slaves in the cities of the Roman Empire	0
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Being everybody’s slaves? Framing the issue	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
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra	0
Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
‘In defence of the empire’: Mauritius’ government slaves in eighteenth-century Mauritius	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
Translatio imperii et studii: Translating Orosius’s Histories and the making of Old English	0
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Bibliography	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
The legal capacity of public slaves in the Roman empire	0
List of Abbreviations	0
Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies	0
Effective management of public slavery in Hospitallers’ Malta	0
Acknowledgements	0

Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Reflections on public slavery and social death	0
Epilogue	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
Inherited institution: Ottoman state slavery and war captives in the early modern era	0
Africa and the making of Classical literature: on decolonizing Greco-Roman literature syllabi	0
Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
Foreword	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
Abstracts	0