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Papers

(The median citation count 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
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
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
Abstracts	0
Experiencing Roman picture galleries from Pompeii and Assisi as library spaces	0
Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?	0
The wisdom of the eagle: a (Middle) Platonic reading of Apuleius, Florida 2	0
Epilogue	0
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic	0
Sons and lovers: dynastic scenario thinking in the Roman empire from Augustus to Commodus	0
Violence and social competition in late antique Egypt: Women as victims and adjudicators	0
Horses for courses: Plato’s vocabulary and authority in the Onomasticon	0
Chrysippus’ lullaby: the early Stoics on the benefits of mousikē	0
The medieval reception of the geography of Orosius	0
A prehistory of Roman domestic violence	0

Milan cake-eaters or Athenian cake-stealers?	0
Character portrayal, good and bad, in the speeches of Isaeus	0
Ecphrasis and manual labour: the aesthetics of woodwork in Leonidas	0
From eschatology to scatology: Recent work on Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue	0
Juxtaposing formats: Studying northwestern Greek women through formal and personal inscriptions	0
Fabius Maximus Rullianus and the capture of Gavius Pontius: Livy’s book 11 and the last years of the Third Samnite War	0
Orosius in al-Andalus	0
‘The Divine Plato’: philosophy and literature in the Second Sophistic	0
Funny matters: Humour theory and comic fragments	0
More Roman than the Romans: neoclassical genocide in French Numidia	0
Making gods real through choral dance	0
Reclaiming Massinissa: Twentieth-century Algerian nationalist historians and the ancient Numidian past	0
Dynasties of the Roman Republic and Age of Augustus	0
Name your enemy: Lysias the metic vs the social network of power	0
Domestic violence and servile vulnerability in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii	0
When Athens invaded Denmark: reading Thucydides before and during the Second World War	0
Introduction	0
Bibliography	0
Domestic sexual abuse in early Christianity: conflations of violence and desire in the Acts of John	0
Altars, palm-trees, and Sourvinou-Inwood’s methodology	0
A pleasure not just for the eye: Multisensorial engagements with ancient gems	0
General Index	0
Rethinking the teaching of ancient Greek: a vertical–horizontal architecture of reception and meaning-making	0
‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’ Roman divorce as a deterrent to intimate partner violence	0
The Cave of Laughlessness, sensory deprivation, and cognitive depletion at Eleusis	0
The missing register of Roman belonging: natio between civitas and origo	0
Women at the intersection between production and euergetism: The case of high-imperial Hierapolis	0
Sulla’s 10,000 Cornelii	0
Foreword	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2021-22	0
Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene	0
Insatiable souls: Philo of Alexandria’s readings of food	0
World geography, historical time, and political vision: Disseminating Orosius’ knowledge at the beginning of the Volume d’Orose (1491)	0
Ventris’ Grids	0
A further look at Virgil’s Ganymede: Ancient readings of Homer and genealogy in the Aeneid	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2020-21	0
Making the audience smarter: spectatorial didactics, collective intelligence, and the emancipation of spectators in fifth-century comedy	0
Speaking of dissimulatio : Tiberius’ words in Suetonius’ De vita Caesarum	0
Misinterpreting a compound name. The origin of the agnomen Publicola in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch	0
(Middle) Platonic philosophers in Lucian	0
An empire of blood: Orosius and Alexander the Great	0
The abuse of aged parents in the ancient Roman world	0
The princeps investigates: two cases of domestic violence in Tacitus’ Annals	0
‘Start with the cage’: coercive control and the Roman husband	0
List of Abbreviations	0
Teaching Vergil to write: Vergil’s aesthetics and the influence of Philodemus and Parthenius	0
A ladies’ man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor	0
Greek or barbarian? Diogenes Laertius on the contested origin of philosophy	0
The Algerian Afterlife of Apuleius the (Half-)Numidian	0
Thinking through scenes on the stage and in the mind	0

Fire metaphors in Plutarch’s Late Republican Lives	0
Single males among wild women? Gender trouble in the parodos of Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Women at the Table in Hispania: Women's Participation in the Epula through Epigraphic Sources	0
I moderni Numidi : Numidia, Numidians, and modern Italian imperialism	0
The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad , the Epic of Gilgameš	0
Situational aesthetics in Ptolemaic culture	0
Reconsidering the computer’s role in literary studies through Levison 1964	0
Experiencing Athenian pasts on Delos: Resource depletion, embodied cognition, and synchronized arousal in the geranos dance	0
Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra	0
Remaking Thucydides	0
Thucydides Trapped	0
Many-headed song: Configuring the lyric chorus as a group mind	0
A female slave dealer? CIL 6.399 and the traffic of Syrians to Italy	0
Towards a rehabilitation of Plutarch’s Nicias	0
Approaching Hellenistic aesthetics	0
Death and memory: the role of Plato’s Phaedo in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists	0
The repurposing of bronze statues	0
Iudicia Dei . Orosius, natural calamities and divine retribution	0
Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children	0
Disrupting illusion in ancient Greek comedy: a cognitive perspective	0
Frames in stone: The Parthenon frieze and the sequential choreography of architectural sculpture	0
Caesar—Lucan—Addison: Three moments in the history of racializing ancient Numidians	0
Recognition beyond memory in Menander: perspectives from early Greek literature	0
Slippery oligarchs: parody in the parabasis of Aristophanes’ Frogs	0
Character portrayal of corona : people around the Athenian law court	0
Self-fragmenting artefacts and comic pragmatics	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2018-19	0
Numidia and Rome	0
Translatio imperii et studii : Translating Orosius’s Histories and the making of Old English	0
Transformed into sensation: embodied geography in Greek comic fragments	0
On the treatment of short final vowels before s impure in classical Latin poetry	0
From the astragalus to the heel: revisiting the anatomy of Achilles’ mythical invulnerability	0
Concordia, Discordia —dynasty, domestic abuse, and family violence in Julio-Claudian Rome	0
Popularization or occlusion of truth in the Platonic myths: Plutarch, Numenius, and Maximus of Tyre	0
Correction to: Bibliographies	0
Shaping comedy: Plassō in the Scholia Vetera on Aristophanes and its intellectual background	0
Pliny’s dynastic paradoxes: The theory and practice of succession in the Panegyricus	0
Receptions and appropriations of Platonic myth: Dio, Plutarch, and Aristides between literary fashion and philosophical exegesis	0
A tale of two Octavias: historical empathy and intimate partner ‘violence’	0
The end of latifundia : development in scholarship on landholding patterns in the late Roman Republic	0
Doing things with Thucydides: a global approach	0
The Mycenaean Seminar 2019-20	0
Divergent dynasticism: Orthodoxy, heresy, and the sons of Constantine in the Greek ecclesiastical writers	0
The rhetoric of dynasticism in the mid-fourth century	0
Plato’s Laws in Musonius Rufus and Clement of Alexandria	0
The farmer wants a wife: ecofeminism, domestic violence, and coercive control in Roman agricultural writing	0
The theatricality of human affairs: Thucydides in Arendt, Thucydides with Arendt	0
Narrative and characterisation in the paragraphe speeches of the Demosthenic corpus	0
Birds, stars, and mousikē : visions of escape in Euripidean choral odes	0
Loyalty, treachery, and the polis : the rhetoric of justice in the Phoenissae of Euripides	0
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac: text and annotation in Paris BnF lat. 4871	0
Beyond the sophisms: Characterization and proof in Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy	0
Constantinian women, the Valentinianic dynasty, and the politics of dynastic representation in the late fourth century Ce	0
Philosophy and Platonism in Fronto’s Correspondence	0
Average Otherness? Numidia and Numidians in Sallust and Livy	0
‘Here lies the monastic Theodosia’: shedding light on female asceticism in late antique Asia Minor and the Near East through inscriptions	0
Fragmenta Britannica VI. Some epigraphic aspects of East Greek pottery from Naukratis	0
Introduction	0
Women as legitimate adversaries: The evidence of Selinountine legal curses	0