OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polis 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
Greed, Outrage, and Civil Conflict in Aristotle’s Politics	2
Helping Cato? How to Improve the Roman Case against Greek Culture	2
Introduction to the Discussion of Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	2
Philosophical Perspectives on Eunomia	2
Socratic Contempt for Wealth in Plato’s Republic	1
Between Specters of War and Vision of Peace: Dialogic Political Theory and the Challenges of Politics, written by Gerald M. Mara	1
Foreword: Legislation and Lawgiving: Philosophical Perspectives on Antiquity	1
Recognition and Redistribution in Aristotle’s Account of Stasis	1
The Double Life of Ibn Bajja: A Platonic Philosopher among the Potentates of His Time	1
Beyond Law and Poetry: On Two Recent Festschriften	1
Power, Impotence and Ambiguity in Xenophon’s Hiero	1
Anonymus Iamblichi and Nomos: Beyond the Sophistic Discourse	1
Front matter	1
Tyranny in Tragedy	1
The King’s House or the Tyrant’s Palace? Rethinking Persia in Herodotus’s History	1
Physics as Political Theory in Imperial Roman Literature	1
Diffusion of Political Ideas between Ancient India and Greece: Early Theories of the Origins of Monarchy	1
Cicero, Caesar, and the End of Cicero’s Imperium	1
Philosophical Curriculum and Lawlessness in the Republic	1
Reimagining Political Legitimacy: Ancestral Imagines in the Contional Speeches of Marius and Cicero	0
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes’s Birds, written by Daniel Holmes	0
Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE, written by K. Scarlett Kingsley	0
Origins and Ends: Money and Power in and beyond Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta, written by Noreen Humble	0

Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws, written by André Laks	0
The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power, written by Maurice Pope	0
‘What’s in a Name?’ Ideology and Language in the Epistulae ad Caesarem	0
Might Makes Rights: a Ciceronian Critique of Pettit’s Theory of Liberty	0
Law and Legislator in the Philosophy of Julian the Emperor	0
Sortition & Democracy: History, Tools, Theories, edited by Liliane Lopez-Rabatel and Yves Sintomer	0
Platonic and Aristotelian Teichopolitics	0
Leo Strauss on Plato’s Euthyphro: the 1948 Notebook, with Lectures and Critical Writings, edited by Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov	0
The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Nar, written by Rosie Harman	0
Geordnete Gemeinschaft. Politische Autarkie bei Aristoteles	0
Back matter	0
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, Chapter IV, and the Development of Spartan Historical Studies	0
Virtue Politics: Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	0
Of Rule and Office and the Limits on Rule in Plato	0
Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason: Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils, written by Pavlos Kontos	0
Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher, written by Nickolas Pappas	0
Kratos and Other Forms of Power in the Two Constitutions of the Athenians	0
The Beautiful in Aristotle’s Ethics	0
Cyrus’ Beehive: Ruling Eros and with Eros in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia	0
Localism in Hellenistic Greece, edited by Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck	0
Martha Nussbaum and Aristotle on Distributive Justice and Equality	0
Polis Celebrates Its 40th Volume and Its 45th Year of Existence	0
Philosophizing Age in De Senectute and the Second Philippic	0
Recasting the Die? A New History of Julius Caesar	0
Cicero’s Philosophical Leadership, an Academic Consideration	0
Pyrrhonism and the Value of Law	0
Aristotle and the Binds of Natural Slavery	0
The Model of Voting in Cicero’s Best State	0
The Birth of Unlawful Freedom in Plato’s Laws 3	0
Aristotele, La Politica, Libri VII–VIII, edited by Lucio Bertelli, Mirko Canevaro and Michele Curnis	0
Law and Economic Growth in Ancient Athens	0
Boni Gone Bad: Cicero’s Critique of Epicureanism in De Finibus 1 and 2	0
Cynicism as Immanent Critique: Diogenes and the Philosophy of Transvaluation	0
The Society of the Cincinnati and Exemplarity in Late 18th-Century America	0
Restraint, Control, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, written by Paul Belonick	0
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations	0
The Concept of Partnership in Book II of the Republic	0
The Stoic Conception of Law	0
Servile Stories and Contested Histories: Empire, Memory, and Criticism in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita	0
Response to Comments on Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political	0
Eumenides and the Invention of Politics	0
The Republic in Plato’s Political Philosophy	0
The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato, written by John T. Hogan	0
Recognition and Redistribution in Aristotle’s Account of Stasis: a Response to Our Critics	0
Plato and Aristophanes: Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life, written by Marina Marren	0
The Connection between Political Equality and Justice in the Gorgias: a Re-reading of ‘Geometrical Equality’ (508a)	0
Roman Republican Politics: Past, Present, and Futures	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Plato, Xenophon, and the Laws of Lycurgus	0
Between ‘The Character of the Athenian Empire’ and The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (and beyond)	0

OPW and de Ste. Croix: the Past and Present Views of a Pupil	0
Back matter	0
Classics East and West, Ancient and Modern	0
Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c.50 BC–AD 565), written by Olivier Hekster	0
Aristotle’s Philosophy of Histories	0
Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, written by Daniel Walker Moore	0
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life, written by Sara Brill	0
Front matter	0
Introduction: New Directions in Roman Political Thought	0
Introduction: The Causes of Stasis in Aristotle’s Politics: Critical Responses to Cairns, Canevaro, and Mantzouranis	0
Les Trois Républiques. Platon, Diogène de Sinope et Zénon de Citium, edited by Suzanne Husson and Juliette Lemaire	0
Greek Rhetoric of the 4th Century BC. The Elixir of Democracy and Individuality, written by Evangelos Alexiou	0
Civic Freedom in Plato’s Laws	0
Ring Composition and the Skepticism of the De Republica	0
What Aristotle Learned from Plato about Justice and Laws	0
Kingship and Legislation in Plato’s Statesman	0
Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic	0
Introduction: A Memorial in Honor of Rex Stem, Scholar and Friend	0
Aristotle’s Understanding of Democratic Justice and His Distinction between Two Kinds of Equality: A Response	0
Nomos Empsychos: towards a Historiography of the Greek Living Law Idea	0
Kallipolis in Motion: Grand Strategy in Plato’s Republic	0
Machiavelli’s Catilinarian Oration	0
Sophoclean Epistemology: Justice in the Theban Plays	0
Liberty, the People, and Republican Constitutionalism in Cicero’s Pro Rabirio perduellionis reo	0
Political Performativity in Performance Culture: Xenophon’s Hipparchikos and the Dithyrambic Chorus	0
Aristotle’s Political Theory as a Craft and Science in Politics 4–6	0
Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon, written by Robert Holschuh Simmons	0
Political, All Too Political. Again on Protagoras’ Myth in Its Intellectual Context	0
Front matter	0
Xenophon, the Old Oligarch, and Alcibiades	0
Mining Plato’s Cave: Silver Mining, Slavery, and Philosophical Education	0
Odd, Idle, and Vicious: Plato’s Use of Public Opinion in His Characterization of the Philosopher in Republic VI	0
Old Comedy and Athenian Power	0
The Dangers of Demagogues and Democratic Revolution: on Aristotle’s Education of the Serious	0
The Difference Sexual Difference Makes in Aristotle’s Corpus	0
Democracy in Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens, written by Jeff Miller	0
The Flower of Suffering. Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Presocratic Thought, written by Nuria Scapin	0
Encounters in Friendship with Nepos, Cicero, Atticus, and Rex Stem	0
Avatars and Accountability: Comments on Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	0
Front matter	0
Tacitus’ Critique of Republicanism in His Germania	0
Varro, the Name-Givers, and the Lawgivers: The Case of the Consuls	0
The Ecological Sustainability of Plato’s Republic	0
Insults in Classical Athens, written by Deborah Kamen	0
Demagogues and Demagoguery in Hellenistic Greece	0
Writing as Pharmakon and the Limits of Law in Plato’s Statesman, Phaedrus, and Laws	0
Isocrates’ Political Science	0
Philosopher-Strangers: Xenia and Panhellenism in Plato’s Laws	0
Busybodies and Quietists, Yesterday and Today: Discovering Debates about Phronēsis in Nicomachean Ethics 6.8	0
Automation, Slavery, and Work in Aristotle’s Politics Book I	0
Fafner and the Rhinemaidens’ Treasure, Fifty Years On	0
Aristotle on Friendship in Association	0
The Best Life in Aristotle’s Politics	0
Cicero and the Philosophic Grounds of Liberty	0
Notes on Contributors	0
History as Political Philosophy: Republican Rome as the Best Form of Government in Livy’s Third Decade	0
Machiavelli’s ‘Lucretian’ Republic	0
Nepos, Atticus, and the Quiet Life	0
Persistent Dissent and Plato’s Later Theory of Civic Participation	0
Praxis as Property: the Concept of Justice in Plato’s Republic	0
Plato’s Market Optimism	0
The Farmer, the Tyrant, and the Quiet Man: Tacitus’ Agricola as Exoteric Literature	0
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging, written by Dean Hammer	0
Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry, written by Matthew R. Christ	0
Republicanism in Desperate Times: Cicero’s Critique of Cato’s Stoicism	0
50 Years after OPW: History and Historiography	0
The Tragedy of Dionysus in Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Conspicuous by Their Presence: Brutus, Cassius, and Cato the Younger in the Writings of Tacitus	0
Did Platon (Politeia 571d) Believe That Every One of Us Is a Repressed Cannibal?	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Back matter	0