Classical Philology

Papers
(The median citation count of Classical Philology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual2
Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism1
Ismene’s Hat: SophoclesOedipus at Colonus313–141
Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 27541
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Introduction: Philology Transfigured1
Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom inAeneid101
“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith1
On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)1
States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War. By David C. Yates. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xx] + 337.1
Deceptive Oratory: Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57–198)1
Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses1
Moretvm 45: An Emendation1
Epigraphy and Collective Memory: Cicero and the War Booty Inscriptions1
Some Notes and Observations on theTbilisi Hymn to Dionysus(P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)0
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Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.70
:Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory0
Achilles beside Gilgamesh: Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry. By Michael Clarke. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [xxv] + 385.0
The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy0
Ekphrastic Games: Ovid, the Gorgoneion, and the Invisible Shield0
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold0
Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’Metamorphoses0
The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus0
:Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer0
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A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?0
Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.420
Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek0
Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity. By Joseph Farrell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 360.0
Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered0
:Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia0
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Viewing Jerusalem in theLetter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire0
Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–220
:Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints0
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Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities0
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’De rerum natura0
Resonances with Hector in Homer’s Odyssey: New Criticism of Odysseus’ Controversial Leadership0
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Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?0
ExtrametricalΝΑΙandΕΙΕΝin Greek Tragedy0
The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–620
Doubtful Weather: An Acrostic in Calpurnius Siculus 5.45–490
Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’sOedipus El Rey0
Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women0
Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian0
Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns0
Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 20
Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems0
Bacchae’s Queer Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral0
Filling In Some Gaps: Misunderstood Jokes in Priapea 12.15 and Catullus 25.50
:The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic0
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’Agamemnonand Sophocles’Trachiniae0
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens. By Edwin Carawan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.0
Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–940
Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space0
Matronymics at Work: Female Succession Techniques in Lucian’s Dialogi meretricii and Some Early Thecla Literature0
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Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells0
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Sappho’s Second Book0
Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 840
The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 70
The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy0
Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits0
Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS0
Authorship Analysis and the Authenticity of Euripides’ Electra 518–44: Preserving Character Consistency0
The Politics of Position: Localization and Disruption in the Homeric Hexameter0
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes0
Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity0
Stoic Allegoresis: The Problem of Definition and Influence0
The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the “Odyssey.” By Alexander C. Loney. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xii] + 265.0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part I: The Athenian Inmate Population0
The Most Expensive Slave in Rome: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis0
Meleager and Catullus at VergilEclogue1.550
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Apuleius’ Invisible Ass: Encounters with the Unseen in the “Metamorphoses.” By Geoffrey C. Benson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [xi] + 299.0
“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur.Phoen.10)0
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus: Homeric Influence and the Writing Of History0
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Me nunc secuntur: Inevitability and Inheritance in Seneca’s Phoenissae0
New Perspectives on the Meaning of cum galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)0
:Homer’s Living Language: Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry0
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle’s Constitutional Theory0
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The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry0
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More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314–36)0
Apollonius Dyscolus’ Treatise On the Pronoun or On Pronouns? Troubles with the Text’s Transmission0
Diodorus Siculus and the Purgos at Tyre: Did Alexander Put Towers on Ships?0
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method0
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Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note0
The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?0
Servilium Litterarum: A Note on the Text of Seneca’s De tranquillitate animi 9.50
:Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700–300 BCE0
Poetics of the First Punic War. By Thomas Biggs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xv] + 247.0
Staging Literary History in Old Comedy0
From Classroom to Codex: The Materiality of the Minor Declamations0
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Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes0
Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini0
To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’Trojan Women0
:Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period0
Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality0
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology0
:Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens0
Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross0
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in theHedypatheiaof Archestratos0
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No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-OvidianMetamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum0
A Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion inAeneid11.399–4090
Making Sense of Plato’s Taste0
Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)0
Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)0
Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’Persians0
Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’Oresteia0
Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias0
Getting Bronze in the Sun: Making Sense of the Remains of Plautus’Vidularia0
:Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue0
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.8150
Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.1370
A Verbal Symbolon of Shared Exclusion-Inclusion: The Sobriety of Oedipus and the Eumenides in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1000
Cicero’s Ideal Statesman as the Helmsman of the Ship of State0
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’sBellum civileBook 90
To Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad0
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:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance0
Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul0
Fragmentary Texts and the Limits of Literary Reference: Ennius’ Hannibal and Cicero’s Pro Balbo in Lucan’s Bellum civile0
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Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?0
A Fragment of Aristotle in the Hesiodic Scholia0
A. B. Yehoshua’s Queer Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture0
Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy0
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The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)0
Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?0
Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary0
Epicureanism in Pro Caelio (Cic. Cael. 42 and Epicurus Frag. 67 U., 22.1 A.)0
The Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians. Edited by Paul Cartledge and Anton Powell. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2018. Pp. [x] + 239.0
Escaping Cicero: “Dionysius” and the Limits of the Archive0
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Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’Augeat Philyllius Fragment 40
A New Hypothesis on the Geographical Setting of Aeschylus’ Psychagogoi0
A Note on Fate at Catullus 64.3200
Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M0
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The Secondary Incipit of theOdyssey(Od.9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer0
Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)0
:Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II0
Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement0
Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of LucretiusDe rerum natura1.936–500
Galen and the Parchment Codex: A Note on the Text of De indolentia 330
The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades0
Hesiod Theogony 8230
Hesychiain Thucydides0
Re-Viewing Ariadne: Catullus’ Coverlet in a Single Frame0
The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues0
Servile Affluence at Rome: Enslavers’ Gift or Slaves’ Achievement?0
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Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State. By Hans Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. [xiii] + 267.0
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:A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome0
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence. By Mathias Hanses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xiv] + 412.0
Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–300
The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy0
Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals0
Revi**sceret: A Textual Note on Tacitus Annales 13.58.10
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius I0
:Disability Studies and the Classical Body0
Revisiting the Authenticity of Porphyry’s Introduction to Ptolemy’s “Apotelesmatics”0
Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.60
Horace in La-la Land: The Pure Poetry of Odes 1.22 and 2.50
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Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: CononNarratives450
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Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses0
Three Homeric Water Similes in Aelius Aristides’ Corpus: Knowledge, Affect, Language0
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Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works0
Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius0
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Varro and the Romulean Tribes0
Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)0
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Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be0
Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities0
What A Feeling! Painting and The Origin of “Nothing to do With Dionysus”0
A Macedonian Deditio? Philip V and the Missing Foedus with the Romans in 197/196 BCE0
Virgil’s meliorsed Construction0
Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair0
:Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire0
Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note onLysistrata5280
“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Queer Afterlives of Orpheus0
Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–660
Non-EliteExemplaandPietasin Livy’s First Pentad0
Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)0
On Aristotle in Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms: An Assessment of Possible Sources0
Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England0
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:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
Rome’s Best Man: TheVir OptimusDebate of 204 BCE and the Study of Roman Masculinity0
My Greek Anthology0
Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)0
Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)0
Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis0
Statius’ Silvae 4.8 and 4.9: The Poet’s Anger and Patronage0
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. [ix] + 327.0
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