OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	2
Spatial memory in the early Athenian inscribed public honours	1
Reading intimate partner violence in Latin controversiae	1
The Kingdoms of Numidia and Rome (218–41 Bce )	1
Wet screen	1
Spoiled terminology: ‘Inhabited reuse’ as an alternative paradigm to spolia and other concepts for antiquities reuse in the Ottoman Empire and beyond	1
American politics, international relations, and educational movements after 1945	1
Re-cognizing hair: Orestes’ lock in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides	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
Dynastic statuary groups from late-antique Greece (Macedonia, Epirus, Achaea)	1
Gnathaena’s feast: sex workers and cognitive bias in comic fragments	1
Women’s sacrifice in Classical Cyprus? The Kition tariff ( CIS I, 86) revisited according to a Brelichian approach	1
Experiencing Roman picture galleries from Pompeii and Assisi as library spaces	0
Milan cake-eaters or Athenian cake-stealers?	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
Juxtaposing formats: Studying northwestern Greek women through formal and personal inscriptions	0
Orosius in al-Andalus	0
Epilogue	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
More Roman than the Romans: neoclassical genocide in French Numidia	0
Violence and social competition in late antique Egypt: Women as victims and adjudicators	0
Reclaiming Massinissa: Twentieth-century Algerian nationalist historians and the ancient Numidian past	0
Name your enemy: Lysias the metic vs the social network of power	0
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius	0

Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
Introduction	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
Character portrayal, good and bad, in the speeches of Isaeus	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	0
General Index	0
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
Fabius Maximus Rullianus and the capture of Gavius Pontius: Livy’s book 11 and the last years of the Third Samnite War	0
Rethinking the teaching of ancient Greek: a vertical–horizontal architecture of reception and meaning-making	0
Foreword	0
The missing register of Roman belonging: natio between civitas and origo	0
Making gods real through choral dance	0
Funny matters: Humour theory and comic fragments	0
Women at the intersection between production and euergetism: The case of high-imperial Hierapolis	0
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
Dynasties of the Roman Republic and Age of Augustus	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
A pleasure not just for the eye: Multisensorial engagements with ancient gems	0
Bibliography	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0
A further look at Virgil’s Ganymede: Ancient readings of Homer and genealogy in the Aeneid	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Speaking of dissimulatio : Tiberius’ words in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
An empire of blood: Orosius and Alexander the Great	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
List of Abbreviations	0
A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor	0
The Algerian Afterlife of Apuleius the (Half-)Numidian	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
Thinking through scenes on the stage and in the mind	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Making the audience smarter: spectatorial didactics, collective intelligence, and the emancipation of spectators in fifth-century comedy	0
I moderni Numidi : Numidia, Numidians, and modern Italian imperialism	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
Many-headed song: Configuring the lyric chorus as a group mind	0
The repurposing of bronze statues	0
Towards a rehabilitation of Plutarch’s Nicias	0
Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0

Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
Frames in stone: The Parthenon frieze and the sequential choreography of architectural sculpture	0
Iudicia Dei . Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
Women at the Table in Hispania: Women's Participation in the Epula through Epigraphic Sources	0
Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad , the Epic of Gilgameš	0
Caesar—Lucan—Addison: Three moments in the history of racializing ancient Numidians	0
Slippery oligarchs: parody in the parabasis of Aristophanes’ Frogs	0
A female slave dealer? CIL 6.399 and the traffic of Syrians to Italy	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
Character portrayal of corona : people around the Athenian law court	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
Numidia and Rome	0
Transformed into sensation: embodied geography in Greek comic fragments	0
Disrupting illusion in ancient Greek comedy: a cognitive perspective	0
On the treatment of short final vowels before s impure in classical Latin poetry	0
Concordia, Discordia —dynasty, domestic abuse, and family violence in Julio-Claudian Rome	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Pliny’s dynastic paradoxes: The theory and practice of succession in the Panegyricus	0
Recognition beyond memory in Menander: perspectives from early Greek literature	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
The end of latifundia : development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Self-fragmenting artefacts and comic pragmatics	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
The rhetoric of dynasticism in the mid-fourth century	0
Translatio imperii et studii : Translating Orosius’s Histories and the making of Old English	0
The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing	0
Narrative and characterisation in the paragraphe speeches of the Demosthenic corpus	0
From the astragalus to the heel: revisiting the anatomy of Achilles’ mythical invulnerability	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē : visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0
Average Otherness? Numidia and Numidians in Sallust and Livy	0
Beyond the sophisms: Characterization and proof in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
Shaping comedy: Plassō in the Scholia Vetera on Aristophanes and its intellectual background	0
Constantinian women, the Valentinianic dynasty, and the politics of dynastic representation in the late fourth century Ce	0
Women as legitimate adversaries: The evidence of Selinountine legal curses	0
‘Here lies the monastic Theodosia’: shedding light on female asceticism in late antique Asia Minor and the Near East through inscriptions	0
Doing things with Thucydides: a global approach	0
A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
Fragmenta Britannica VI. Some epigraphic aspects of East Greek pottery from Naukratis	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
Divergent dynasticism: Orthodoxy, heresy, and the sons of Constantine in the Greek ecclesiastical writers	0
Abstracts	0
Loyalty, treachery, and the polis : the rhetoric of justice in the Phoenissae of Euripides	0
The theatricality of human affairs: Thucydides in Arendt, Thucydides with Arendt	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
Sons and lovers: dynastic scenario thinking in the Roman empire from Augustus to Commodus	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
Introduction	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0