Classical Philology

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens. By Edwin Carawan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.3
A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?1
:Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire1
Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses1
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Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)1
Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary1
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.8151
Prolegomena to Any Future Edition of Aristotle’sPrior Analytics: Theodore’s Arabic Translation1
Stoic Allegoresis: The Problem of Definition and Influence1
The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual1
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State. By Hans Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. [xiii] + 267.1
Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.421
Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)0
Juvenal and Christian Apologetics in Prudentius’Hymn to Romanus(Peristephanon10)0
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Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses0
New Perspectives on the Meaning of cum galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)0
Matronymics at Work: Female Succession Techniques in Lucian’s Dialogi meretricii and Some Early Thecla Literature0
:Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE0
Philodemus, Catullus, and TheDomina Di(n)dymi0
A. B. Yehoshua’s Queer Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture0
Hesiod Theogony 8230
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
Hesychiain Thucydides0
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A Fragment of Aristotle in the Hesiodic Scholia0
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Statius’ Silvae 4.8 and 4.9: The Poet’s Anger and Patronage0
The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory0
The Secondary Incipit of theOdyssey(Od.9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer0
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Meleager and Catullus at VergilEclogue1.550
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:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance0
Ausonius’ Advice to a Painter: InterpretingBissula5 and 60
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes0
Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul0
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Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?0
Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek0
Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–300
Making Sense of Plato’s Taste0
Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?0
Ismene’s Hat: SophoclesOedipus at Colonus313–140
Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. [ix] + 327.0
Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems0
The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 70
Authorship Analysis and the Authenticity of Euripides’ Electra 518–44: Preserving Character Consistency0
The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus0
:Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue0
Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’Persians0
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
Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)0
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Viewing Jerusalem in theLetter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire0
A Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion inAeneid11.399–4090
Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality0
Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini0
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:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith0
Hegemonic Finances: Funding Athenian Domination in the 5th and 4th Centuries BC. Edited by Thomas J. Figueira and Sean R. Jensen. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2019. Pp. [xx] + 278.0
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in theHedypatheiaof Archestratos0
To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’Trojan Women0
Epigraphy and Collective Memory: Cicero and the War Booty Inscriptions0
Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities0
:Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens0
Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of LucretiusDe rerum natura1.936–500
Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity0
The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades0
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Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 840
:Disability Studies and the Classical Body0
The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy0
Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement0
Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)0
Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy0
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On Aristotle in Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms: An Assessment of Possible Sources0
Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)0
Resonances with Hector in Homer’s Odyssey: New Criticism of Odysseus’ Controversial Leadership0
Author and Characters: Ancient, Narratological, and Cognitive Views on a Tricky Relationship0
Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian0
Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered0
Three Homeric Water Similes in Aelius Aristides’ Corpus: Knowledge, Affect, Language0
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Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note0
No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-OvidianMetamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum0
Deceptive Oratory: Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57–198)0
Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross0
On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)0
ExtrametricalΝΑΙandΕΙΕΝin Greek Tragedy0
Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–940
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part I: The Athenian Inmate Population0
My Greek Anthology0
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Juno’s “Aeneid”: A Battle for Heroic Identity. By Joseph Farrell. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 360.0
Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 20
Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits0
Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: CononNarratives450
Servilium Litterarum: A Note on the Text of Seneca’s De tranquillitate animi 9.50
Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–220
:Homer’s Living Language: Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry0
The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?0
Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS0
Escaping Cicero: “Dionysius” and the Limits of the Archive0
Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women0
A New Hypothesis on the Geographical Setting of Aeschylus’ Psychagogoi0
:Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period0
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be0
Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes0
States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War. By David C. Yates. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. [xx] + 337.0
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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
Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.70
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method0
:Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia0
Galen and the Parchment Codex: A Note on the Text of De indolentia 330
Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.1370
Diodorus Siculus and the Purgos at Tyre: Did Alexander Put Towers on Ships?0
Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias0
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology0
Fragmentary Texts and the Limits of Literary Reference: Ennius’ Hannibal and Cicero’s Pro Balbo in Lucan’s Bellum civile0
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Moretvm 45: An Emendation0
Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.60
Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom inAeneid100
Virgil’s meliorsed Construction0
The People’s Moral Emotions in Polybius’ Cycle of Constitutions0
Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair0
Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’Augeat Philyllius Fragment 40
Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’Oresteia0
Non-EliteExemplaandPietasin Livy’s First Pentad0
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Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)0
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
Introduction: Philology Transfigured0
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Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II0
:Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer0
The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues0
Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism0
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Some Notes and Observations on theTbilisi Hymn to Dionysus(P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)0
Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities0
“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Queer Afterlives of Orpheus0
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Revisiting the Authenticity of Porphyry’s Introduction to Ptolemy’s “Apotelesmatics”0
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’De rerum natura0
Cicero’s Ideal Statesman as the Helmsman of the Ship of State0
Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’sOedipus El Rey0
Poetics of the First Punic War. By Thomas Biggs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xv] + 247.0
Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space0
Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’Metamorphoses0
Varro and the Romulean Tribes0
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold0
The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius I0
Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)0
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Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 27540
Staging Literary History in Old Comedy0
Bacchae’s Queer Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral0
Ekphrastic Games: Ovid, the Gorgoneion, and the Invisible Shield0
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Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M0
On Plato Theaetetus 149d30
Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note onLysistrata5280
The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–620
:Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois0
Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works0
Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?0
Rome’s Best Man: TheVir OptimusDebate of 204 BCE and the Study of Roman Masculinity0
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Through the Eyes of a Child: The Boy Viewer in Imperial Ekphrasis0
A Macedonian Deditio? Philip V and the Missing Foedus with the Romans in 197/196 BCE0
Epicureanism in Pro Caelio (Cic. Cael. 42 and Epicurus Frag. 67 U., 22.1 A.)0
Sappho’s Second Book0
Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius0
:Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints0
More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314–36)0
Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells0
“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur.Phoen.10)0
Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis0
The Most Expensive Slave in Rome: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis0
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’sBellum civileBook 90
The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry0
The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy0
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus: Homeric Influence and the Writing Of History0
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A Verbal Symbolon of Shared Exclusion-Inclusion: The Sobriety of Oedipus and the Eumenides in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1000
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle’s Constitutional Theory0
Getting Bronze in the Sun: Making Sense of the Remains of Plautus’Vidularia0
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’Agamemnonand Sophocles’Trachiniae0
Re-Viewing Ariadne: Catullus’ Coverlet in a Single Frame0
What A Feeling! Painting and The Origin of “Nothing to do With Dionysus”0
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Apollonius Dyscolus’ Treatise On the Pronoun or On Pronouns? Troubles with the Text’s Transmission0
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
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To Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad0
Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–660
Abused Bodies in Roman Epic. By Andrew M. McClellan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [xi] + 310.0
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Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns0
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