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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Helping Cato? How to Improve the Roman Case against Greek Culture	5
Introduction to the Discussion of Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	5
Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice, written by Merrick Anderson	2
Aristotle on the Rule of Law and Particularism: Politics 3.15–16	1
Cicero, Caesar, and the End of Cicero’s Imperium	1
The King’s House or the Tyrant’s Palace? Rethinking Persia in Herodotus’s History	1
Greed, Outrage, and Civil Conflict in Aristotle’s Politics	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Front matter	1
Front matter	1
Diffusion of Political Ideas between Ancient India and Greece: Early Theories of the Origins of Monarchy	1
Tyranny in Tragedy	1
Power, Impotence and Ambiguity in Xenophon’s Hiero	1
Sophoclean Epistemology: Justice in the Theban Plays	0
Nomos Empsychos: towards a Historiography of the Greek Living Law Idea	0
Divided Power in Ancient Greece: Decision-Making and Institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic Polis, written by Alberto Esu	0
Democracy in Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens, written by Jeff Miller	0
Old Comedy and Athenian Power	0
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations	0
Automation, Slavery, and Work in Aristotle’s Politics Book I	0
Beyond Law and Poetry: On Two Recent Festschriften	0
Introduction: New Directions in Roman Political Thought	0
Boni Gone Bad: Cicero’s Critique of Epicureanism in De Finibus 1 and 2	0
Aristotele, La Politica, Libri VII–VIII, edited by Lucio Bertelli, Mirko Canevaro and Michele Curnis	0
The Bandit City: Theorizing the Polis and the Outlaw Community in the Greek Novels	0

Philosopher-Strangers: Xenia and Panhellenism in Plato’s Laws	0
Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE, written by K. Scarlett Kingsley	0
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging, written by Dean Hammer	0
Aristotle and the Binds of Natural Slavery	0
Might Makes Rights: a Ciceronian Critique of Pettit’s Theory of Liberty	0
Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher, written by Nickolas Pappas	0
The Sophists, Human Nature, and the First Political Societies: a Reply to Robitzsch	0
Philosophizing Age in De Senectute and the Second Philippic	0
Conspicuous by Their Presence: Brutus, Cassius, and Cato the Younger in the Writings of Tacitus	0
Back matter	0
Plato’s Minos and the Form of Human Sacrifice	0
Servile Stories and Contested Histories: Empire, Memory, and Criticism in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita	0
The ‘Carrot and Stick’ Approach in Thucydides’ History and Aeschylus’ Eumenides	0
50 Years after OPW: History and Historiography	0
Machiavelli’s ‘Lucretian’ Republic	0
Ring Composition and the Skepticism of the De Republica	0
Ruling Bodies: a Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato’s Republic, Laws, and Gorgias, written by Robin J. Varma	0
The Model of Voting in Cicero’s Best State	0
Xenophon, the Old Oligarch, and Alcibiades	0
Back matter	0
Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson, written by Gerard Naddaf with Louis-André Dorion	0
Polis Celebrates Its 40th Volume and Its 45th Year of Existence	0
The Farmer, the Tyrant, and the Quiet Man: Tacitus’ Agricola as Exoteric Literature	0
Introduction: The Causes of Stasis in Aristotle’s Politics: Critical Responses to Cairns, Canevaro, and Mantzouranis	0
Sortition & Democracy: History, Tools, Theories, edited by Liliane Lopez-Rabatel and Yves Sintomer	0
Back matter	0
Response to Comments on Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political	0
Back matter	0
The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power, written by Maurice Pope	0
Gods against the Emperor: Reassessing the Death Omens of Caligula, Nero, and Domitian in Suetonius and Cassius Dio	0
Patricide and Plato’s Deontic Option	0
Republicanism in Desperate Times: Cicero’s Critique of Cato’s Stoicism	0
The Republic in Plato’s Political Philosophy	0
Physics as Political Theory in Imperial Roman Literature	0
Mining Plato’s Cave: Silver Mining, Slavery, and Philosophical Education	0
Front matter	0
Praxis as Property: the Concept of Justice in Plato’s Republic	0
Kallipolis in Motion: Grand Strategy in Plato’s Republic	0
The Autocratic Interpretation of Athens: Rethinking Regime Theory in Thucydides’ ‘Archaeology’	0
Cicero on the Rhetorical Foundations of Human Society	0
Between Specters of War and Vision of Peace: Dialogic Political Theory and the Challenges of Politics, written by Gerald M. Mara	0
Origins and Ends: Money and Power in and beyond Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War	0
Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes’s Birds, written by Daniel Holmes	0
Les Trois Républiques. Platon, Diogène de Sinope et Zénon de Citium, edited by Suzanne Husson and Juliette Lemaire	0
Socratic Contempt for Wealth in Plato’s Republic	0
Aristotle on Friendship in Association	0
Plato on the Law, Political Rule, and Philosophical Knowledge	0
The Greek Imaginary: From Homer to Heraclitus, Seminars 1982–1983, written by Cornelius Castoriadis and translated by John V. Garner and María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta	0
Isocrates’ Political Science	0
Recognition and Redistribution in Aristotle’s Account of Stasis: a Response to Our Critics	0

Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History, written by Daniel Walker Moore	0
Fear as a Political Tool in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia	0
Fafner and the Rhinemaidens’ Treasure, Fifty Years On	0
Introduction: A Memorial in Honor of Rex Stem, Scholar and Friend	0
The Best Life in Aristotle’s Politics	0
Cicero and the Philosophic Grounds of Liberty	0
History as Political Philosophy: Republican Rome as the Best Form of Government in Livy’s Third Decade	0
Restraint, Control, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, written by Paul Belonick	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
Aristotle and the Law: Forethought, Voluntary Action, and Action on Election	0
Protagorean Positivism	0
Introduction: Ancient Philosophy of Law	0
Nepos, Atticus, and the Quiet Life	0
Aristotle’s Understanding of Democratic Justice and His Distinction between Two Kinds of Equality: A Response	0
The Concept of Partnership in Book II of the Republic	0
Writing as Pharmakon and the Limits of Law in Plato’s Statesman, Phaedrus, and Laws	0
The Ecological Sustainability of Plato’s Republic	0
Political, All Too Political. Again on Protagoras’ Myth in Its Intellectual Context	0
Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon, written by Robert Holschuh Simmons	0
Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws, written by André Laks	0
Avatars and Accountability: Comments on Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	0
Insults in Classical Athens, written by Deborah Kamen	0
The Tragedy of Dionysus in Euripides’ Bacchae	0
Political Performativity in Performance Culture: Xenophon’s Hipparchikos and the Dithyrambic Chorus	0
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life, written by Sara Brill	0
To Rule, or Not to Rule? The ‘Happy Philosopher’ Crux of Plato’s Republic	0
Aristotle’s Political Theory as a Craft and Science in Politics 4–6	0
Plato and Aristophanes: Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life, written by Marina Marren	0
Martha Nussbaum and Aristotle on Distributive Justice and Equality	0
‘What’s in a Name?’ Ideology and Language in the Epistulae ad Caesarem	0
Inegalitarian Institutional Design in Late Plato: Synousiai as ‘Festive Gathering’ and ‘Epistemic Colloquium’ in the Minos and the Laws	0
Reimagining Political Legitimacy: Ancestral Imagines in the Contional Speeches of Marius and Cicero	0
Law and Political Authoritarianism in Plato’s Statesman	0
Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta, written by Noreen Humble	0
The Correctness of Laws and the Role of Natural History in Plato’s Republic 5	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Double Life of Ibn Bajja: A Platonic Philosopher among the Potentates of His Time	0
Recasting the Die? A New History of Julius Caesar	0
Encounters in Friendship with Nepos, Cicero, Atticus, and Rex Stem	0
Machiavelli’s Catilinarian Oration	0
Roman Republican Politics: Past, Present, and Futures	0
Aristotle on the Scope of Practical Reason: Spectators, Legislators, Hopes, and Evils, written by Pavlos Kontos	0
Localism in Hellenistic Greece, edited by Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck	0
Aristotle on Politics as Art and Praxis	0
Front matter	0
Aristotle’s Philosophy of Histories	0
Busybodies and Quietists, Yesterday and Today: Discovering Debates about Phronēsis in Nicomachean Ethics 6.8	0
Kratos and Other Forms of Power in the Two Constitutions of the Athenians	0
Greek Rhetoric of the 4th Century BC. The Elixir of Democracy and Individuality, written by Evangelos Alexiou	0
Liberty, the People, and Republican Constitutionalism in Cicero’s Pro Rabirio perduellionis reo	0
Tacitus’ Critique of Republicanism in His Germania	0
The Problems of Legislation in Plato’s Laws Book III	0
Persistent Dissent and Plato’s Later Theory of Civic Participation	0
Dēmagōgia’s Discursive Memory in Modern Western Languages: Aristotle’s Reception during the Middle Ages	0
Of Rule and Office and the Limits on Rule in Plato	0
The Flower of Suffering. Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Presocratic Thought, written by Nuria Scapin	0
Classics East and West, Ancient and Modern	0
Virtue Politics: Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office	0
Plato’s Market Optimism	0
Did Platon (Politeia 571d) Believe That Every One of Us Is a Repressed Cannibal?	0
Cicero’s Philosophical Leadership, an Academic Consideration	0
Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry, written by Matthew R. Christ	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Identifying the Preludes in Plato’s Laws	0
Between ‘The Character of the Athenian Empire’ and The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (and beyond)	0
Geordnete Gemeinschaft. Politische Autarkie bei Aristoteles	0
The Society of the Cincinnati and Exemplarity in Late 18th-Century America	0
The Dangers of Demagogues and Democratic Revolution: on Aristotle’s Education of the Serious	0
The Connection between Political Equality and Justice in the Gorgias: a Re-reading of ‘Geometrical Equality’ (508a)	0
OPW and de Ste. Croix: the Past and Present Views of a Pupil	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, Chapter IV, and the Development of Spartan Historical Studies	0
The Difference Sexual Difference Makes in Aristotle’s Corpus	0
Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c.50 BC–AD 565), written by Olivier Hekster	0
The Revolution to Come: a History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin, written by Dan Edelstein	0
Poleis of Our Wishes	0
The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato, written by John T. Hogan	0