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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64	2
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
Spoiled terminology: ‘Inhabited reuse’ as an alternative paradigm to spolia and other concepts for antiquities reuse in the Ottoman Empire and beyond	1
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Liberation philology: decolonizing Classics in Africa, a native view from the South	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	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
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
Check your privilege: reconsidering the social position of public slaves in the cities of the Roman Empire	0
Many-headed song: Configuring the lyric chorus as a group mind	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of Alexander Kwapong	0
Experiencing Roman picture galleries from Pompeii and Assisi as library spaces	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Epilogue	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
An empire of blood: Orosius and Alexander the Great	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
Effective management of public slavery in Hospitallers’ Malta	0
Orosius in al-Andalus	0

Reflections on public slavery and social death	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
Acknowledgements	0
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	0
General Index	0
Inherited institution: Ottoman state slavery and war captives in the early modern era	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Abstracts	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
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra	0
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
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
Ventris’ Grids	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
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
Bibliographies	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
Iudicia Dei. Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
Making gods real through choral dance	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
The end of latifundia: development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
Being everybody’s slaves? Framing the issue	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
‘In defence of the empire’: Mauritius’ government slaves in eighteenth-century Mauritius	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
Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond	0
Foreword	0
Bibliography	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0

Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Bibliography	0
Public slavery in the precolonial Gold Coast (Ghana)	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
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0
Storying early Alexandria: occluded histories, colonial fantasies	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	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
List of Abbreviations	0
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
The Algerian Afterlife of Apuleius the (Half-)Numidian	0
Spatial memory in the early Athenian inscribed public honours	0
Milan cake-eaters or Athenian cake-stealers?	0
Speaking of dissimulatio: Tiberius’ words in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
‘All human beings are either free or slave’? Servi publici in Late Antiquity	0
A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
I moderni Numidi: Numidia, Numidians, and modern Italian imperialism	0