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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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The King and the Falcon: Euripides in an Egyptian Ritual3
Catullus, Hesiod, and the Muses2
Sailors, Soldiers, and Market Exchanges in the Classical Greek World: The Constraints on Opportunism1
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Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom inAeneid101
On Aeschylus’ Fragment 429a Radt (= 599a Mette)1
Knowledge, Fear, and Snakes: The Influence of Nicander on Lucan’sBellum civileBook 91
Moretvm 45: An Emendation1
Alcidamas and the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 27541
Deceptive Oratory: Cicero in Sinon’s Speech (Verg. Aen. 2.57–198)1
“Neither a Demos nor a Polis”: Post-Seleucid Community Formation in the Book of Judith1
Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space1
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Introduction: Philology Transfigured1
Ismene’s Hat: SophoclesOedipus at Colonus313–141
Filling In Some Gaps: Misunderstood Jokes in Priapea 12.15 and Catullus 25.51
:Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue1
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Revi**sceret: A Textual Note on Tacitus Annales 13.58.10
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The Presbeutikos Logos and the Hippocratic Corpus0
Ovid Metamorphoses 14.81–83 and 15.464–660
Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ΑΤΟΝ, 59; ΑΑΤΑΙ, 101)0
Matronymics at Work: Female Succession Techniques in Lucian’s Dialogi meretricii and Some Early Thecla Literature0
Lucian, Aristophanes, and the Language of Intellectuals0
Lactantius’ Adaptation and Rejection of LucretiusDe rerum natura1.936–500
A Misunderstood Passage and an Unnecessary Deletion inAeneid11.399–4090
:Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period0
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part I: Negative Mental Changes0
Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens, 490–318 BCE Part II: Narrating Incarceration in Athenian Historiography and Oratory0
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A New Hypothesis on the Geographical Setting of Aeschylus’ Psychagogoi0
Escaping Cicero: “Dionysius” and the Limits of the Archive0
No Cock-Up: Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-OvidianMetamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum0
Tragedy: Reconstruction and Repair0
:Steely-eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists0
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Unapproachable for Goats: Some Notes to Lucilius 113 M0
Death, Memory, Intertextuality: Warrior Catalogues in Aeschylus’Persians0
Cosmogonies of the Bound: Titans, Giants, and Early Greek Binding Spells0
Three Homeric Water Similes in Aelius Aristides’ Corpus: Knowledge, Affect, Language0
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold0
Viewing Jerusalem in theLetter of Aristeas: Aesthetics, Experience, and Empire0
The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic Date of Plato’s Cratylus0
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Sophocles Electra 1050–57 and the Pragmatics of Tragic Exits0
Pronouns, Persuasion, and Performance in the Athenian Courtroom: ΟΥΤΟΣ in Lysias0
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
Looking Back: Ancient Greek Poetry in the Age of AIDS0
The Etymology of Carrago: Germanic or Latin?0
The Earliest Peripatetic Commentators in the First Century BCE and the Old Academy: A Neglected Antiochean Legacy0
Statius’ Silvae and Paracorporal Roman Elegy in Early Tudor England0
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology0
:Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints0
Cum patuit lecto: A Double Entendre at Propertius 4.4.420
Heralds and Messengers: Character Identity and Function in Greek Tragedy0
Greek Solutions to Problems in Catullus 1 and 840
Life, Death, and Lightning: An Alternative Edition of Empedocles B 9 DK with Commentary0
Starting with Practical Reason in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VI 1: About the Object of the Calculative Part of the Soul0
Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?0
:Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire0
:Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World0
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Servile Affluence at Rome: Enslavers’ Gift or Slaves’ Achievement?0
A Verbal Symbolon of Shared Exclusion-Inclusion: The Sobriety of Oedipus and the Eumenides in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1000
Helios or Jesus? The Last Words of the Emperor Julian0
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Sus and Mus in Lucretius (De rerum natura 5.25), Vergil (Georgics 1.181), and Horace (Ars poetica 139)0
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:A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome0
Non-EliteExemplaandPietasin Livy’s First Pentad0
Corydon’s Incondita Carmina in Eclogue 20
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Who Called the Concordia of Tiberius’ Temple Concordia Augusta? Yet Another Problem for January 16 in the Fasti Praenestini0
Laughing Waves in Ancient Greek0
More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314–36)0
Scattering Seeds: The Lyncus and Triptolemus Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius II0
Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius0
The Roots of Divination in Archaic Poetry0
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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
Hesiod Theogony 8230
:Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300–550 CE0
The Shadow of the Bellum Perusinum in the Ending of Vergil’s Eclogues0
Sappho’s Second Book0
Resonances with Hector in Homer’s Odyssey: New Criticism of Odysseus’ Controversial Leadership0
:Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer0
Authorship Analysis and the Authenticity of Euripides’ Electra 518–44: Preserving Character Consistency0
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Me nunc secuntur: Inevitability and Inheritance in Seneca’s Phoenissae0
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
Epicureanism in Pro Caelio (Cic. Cael. 42 and Epicurus Frag. 67 U., 22.1 A.)0
The Most Expensive Slave in Rome: Quintus Lutatius Daphnis0
ExtrametricalΝΑΙandΕΙΕΝin Greek Tragedy0
Servilium Litterarum: A Note on the Text of Seneca’s De tranquillitate animi 9.50
:Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia0
Horace in La-la Land: The Pure Poetry of Odes 1.22 and 2.50
:Homer’s Living Language: Formularity, Dialect, and Creativity in Oral-Traditional Poetry0
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Medea’s Platonic Soul Takes Flight (Ap. Rhod. Argon. 3.1150–54)0
Down the Garden Path: Divinity, Space, and Poetics in the Carmina Priapea0
:Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700–300 BCE0
Writing Down Epic: Another Homeric Allusion in Horace Odes 1.60
Moral Sententiae and Progressor Emotions in Seneca’s Philosophical Works0
:The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance0
Maius opus moveo: Vergil’s Hidden Signature in Aeneid 7.45?0
Diodorus Siculus and the Purgos at Tyre: Did Alexander Put Towers on Ships?0
Plants Full of Signs: Herbal Lore in the Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius I0
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Queer Philology and Luis Alfaro’sOedipus El Rey0
A Fragment of Aristotle in the Hesiodic Scholia0
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’Agamemnonand Sophocles’Trachiniae0
Aristotelian Zoology in the First and Second Centuries CE0
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The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus: Homeric Influence and the Writing Of History0
On Aristotle in Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms: An Assessment of Possible Sources0
Stoic Allegoresis: The Problem of Definition and Influence0
Licentia: Cicero on the Suicide of Political Communities0
To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’Trojan Women0
The Life Cycles of Counterfactual Modal Verbs in Ancient Greek: Temporal Reference Shift, Language Ecology, and Analogy0
The Secondary Incipit of theOdyssey(Od.9.39): Quotation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Reception of Homer0
Internal Rhyme in Latin Lyric: Statius Silvae 4.5 and 4.70
How the Mind Is Affected in Homer and the Sanskrit Epics. Part II: Positive Mental Changes0
Aristotle on Perfect and Imperfect Sense Activities0
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Some Notes and Observations on theTbilisi Hymn to Dionysus(P. Ross. Georg. 1.11)0
Varro and the Romulean Tribes0
Chronos the Master Craftsman in the Sisyphus Fragment (Critias TRGF 1 [43] F 19)0
Bacchae’s Queer Hyperchorality: Becoming-Wild, Becoming-Choral0
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Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy. By Mario Telò. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. [ix] + 327.0
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Apollonius Dyscolus’ Treatise On the Pronoun or On Pronouns? Troubles with the Text’s Transmission0
Meleager and Catullus at VergilEclogue1.550
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in theHedypatheiaof Archestratos0
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State. By Hans Beck. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. [xiii] + 267.0
Murder, Logic, and Embryology: The Beginnings of Political and Moral Philosophy in Aischylos’Oresteia0
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Bed Head: A Note on the Durability (and Subsequent Potential “Reuse”) of Women’s Hairstyles in Antiquity0
Tragic Hexameters and Generic Archaeology: Hera’s Hymn to the Nymphs (Aesch. Frags. 168–168b Radt)0
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens. By Edwin Carawan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.0
Foaming Cups: A Textual Note on Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.8150
Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’Metamorphoses0
:The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic0
Facts as Fiction in the Early Career of Aristophanes0
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Epigram Reading Epigram: Antipater of Sidon “Coming Second” (Anth. Pal. 9.25)0
Fragmentary Texts and the Limits of Literary Reference: Ennius’ Hannibal and Cicero’s Pro Balbo in Lucan’s Bellum civile0
Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered0
To Split a Head in Two and Pop Out Eyeballs: On the Plausibility of Two Injuries in the Iliad0
:Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens0
Callimachus Hymn to Artemis 26–29: A Textual Note0
Sophocles Trachiniae 1021–220
Figuring Out Fama: An Intertextual Reading of Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 6.1–300
The River Oeroe on the Battlefield of Plataea (Hdt. 9.51 and Paus. 9.4.4)0
The Aesthetics of Disgust in Lucretius’De rerum natura0
Styx Dipping: Revisiting a Mother’s Nightmares (Achil. 1.133–34)0
A New Satyric or Comic Fragment from Praeneste?0
Virgil’s meliorsed Construction0
Rome’s Best Man: TheVir OptimusDebate of 204 BCE and the Study of Roman Masculinity0
My Greek Anthology0
Doubtful Weather: An Acrostic in Calpurnius Siculus 5.45–490
:Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois0
Sacred Time: Grief and Its Limits in the Aeneid0
Divine Liars: Gods and Their Falsehoods in the Homeric Hymns0
The Soul-Turning Metaphor in Plato’s Republic Book 70
Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women0
Death, Immortality, and the Value of Human Existence in Aristotle’s Eudemus Fragment 6 Ross0
Servius and Virgil: Lessons in Gender Agreement0
From Classroom to Codex: The Materiality of the Minor Declamations0
Athenian Documentary Language in Aristophanic Comedy: A Note onLysistrata5280
Lucian Verae historiae 2.20 and the Relative Chronology of the Homeric Poems0
Re-Viewing Ariadne: Catullus’ Coverlet in a Single Frame0
Silence as Defeat and Reversal in Euripides’ Alcestis0
Hesychiain Thucydides0
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Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.1370
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
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The Androgyny of Wonder: A Reading of Plato’s First Alcibiades0
A Note on Fate at Catullus 64.3200
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A. B. Yehoshua’s Queer Orpheus: Overcoming the Israeli Ashkenazi-Sephardi Fracture0
:Disability Studies and the Classical Body0
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Cicero’s Ideal Statesman as the Helmsman of the Ship of State0
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Holding the Baby: A Parody of Euripides’Augeat Philyllius Fragment 40
Translatio fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality0
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The Politics of Position: Localization and Disruption in the Homeric Hexameter0
New Perspectives on the Meaning of cum galeare ursici (Char. Gramm. 1.80 = GL I 80.9 = Barwick 101.5–6)0
“The Famed Child of Menoeceus” (Eur.Phoen.10)0
Achilles and the Resources of Genre: Epitaph, Hymnos, and Paean in Iliad 22.386–940
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Two Recent Books on Statius0
The Good or the Wild at Aristotle Eudemian Ethics 8.3?0
Capitolium Vetus: A New Street in Rome?0
A Macedonian Deditio? Philip V and the Missing Foedus with the Romans in 197/196 BCE0
The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy0
Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: CononNarratives450
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle’s Constitutional Theory0
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Galen and the Parchment Codex: A Note on the Text of De indolentia 330
Making Sense of Plato’s Taste0
Poetics of the First Punic War. By Thomas Biggs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. [xv] + 247.0
“The Ones Who Bloom in the Bitter Snow”: Hadestown and the Queer Afterlives of Orpheus0
The Path of the Sun: Pindar Olympian 2.61–620
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus: The Deictic Method0
Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be0
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