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    Archimedes at Syracuse: Two New Witnesses to Cassius dio's Roman History 15 (Tzetzes’ Carmina Iliaca and Hypomnema in S. Lvciam).Philip Rance - 2023 - Classical Quarterly 73 (1):436-456.
    Cassius Dio's fragmentary Roman History 15 contains an account of Archimedes’ role in defending Syracuse during the Roman siege of 213–212 b.c., incorporating a legendary tale about a solar reflector Archimedes constructed to burn Roman warships, and including details of his death when the city fell. The textual basis of this famous episode depends on two derivative twelfth-century works: Zonaras’ Epitome of Histories (9.4–5) and Tzetzes’ Chiliades (2.35). After clarifying the present state of enquiry, this paper introduces two new witnesses, (...)
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    II. Abteilung.Martin Dennert, Rudolf Stefec, Peter Isépy, Dimitri Theodoridis, Ioannis Polemis, Philip Rance, Teresa Martínez Manzano, Staffan Wahlgren & Athanasios Markopoulos - 2015 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 108 (1):229-276.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Byzantinische Zeitschrift Jahrgang: 108 Heft: 1 Seiten: 229-276.
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    A late Byzantine book inventory in Sofia, Dujčev gr. 253 (olim Kosinitsa 265) – a monastic or private library?Philip Rance - 2022 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 115 (3):977-1030.
    This study concerns an inventory of books, dated 1428/29, inscribed in Sofia, Dujčev gr. 253 (olim Kosinitsa 265), fol. 290r. Although the text was obscurely published in 1886, the vicissitudes of this codex over the following century impeded further research and the inventory continues to be overlooked in studies of Byzantine libraries, books and reading. A new edition, furnishing corrections and filling lacunae, together with a first translation and palaeographical analysis, provide a foundation for introducing this rare document and re-evaluating (...)
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    A Roman-Lazi War in the Suda: A Fragment of Priscus?Philip Rance - 2015 - Classical Quarterly 65 (2):852-867.
    Sudaτ 134: Ταρσοὶ καλάμων. οἱ δὲ Λαζοὶ βόθρους ὀρύξαντες καὶ δόρατα τοῖς βόθροις ἐγκαταπήξαντες ταρσοῖς καλάμων καὶ ὕλῃ μὴ βεβαίαν ἐχούσῃ βάσιν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ ἐπιφερόμενον ἄχθος ὀλισθαινούσῃ, τὰ στόματα τῶν ὀρυγμάτων ἐκάλυψαν· καὶ χοῦν ἐπιβαλόντες τά τε παρ’ ἑκάτερα χωρία γεωργήσαντες καὶ πυροὺς σπείραντες ἐτροπώσαντο τοὺς Ῥωμαίους. Ταρσοὶ καλάμων παρ’ Ἡροδότῳ ἡ τρασιά (πρασιάmss), οὗ ἐξήραινον τὴν πλίνθον.Frames of reeds. ‘The Lazi, having dug pits and securely fixed spears within them, concealed the openings of the holes with frames of (...)
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    An unnoticed regimental diaconus in the correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrrhus.Philip Rance - 2014 - História 63 (1):117-128.
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    Hannibal, elephants and turrets in Suda θ 438 [polybius fr. 162 B ] – an unidentified fragment of Diodorus.Philip Rance - 2009 - Classical Quarterly 59 (1):91-.
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    The date of the military compendium of Syrianus Magister (Formerly the sixth-century anonymus Byzantinus).Philip Rance - 2007 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 100 (2):701-737.
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    “Win but do not overwin” – The History of a Proverb from the Sententiae Menandri, and a Classical Allusion in St. Paul′s Epistle to the Romans.Philip Rance - 2008 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 152 (2):191-204.
    This paper traces the history and meaning of the Greek proverb “Win but do not overwin”, first documented in Maurice′s Strategicon and cited thereafter in various contexts in Byzantine military and historical literature. The earliest manifestation of this proverb is identified as a verse of iambic trimeters preserved in the Γνῶμαι Μενάνδρου or Sententiae Menandri, witnessed in both the manuscript tradition and a fragmentary specimen inscribed on a fifth-/sixth-century ostracon. Older scholarship denied the antiquity of this monostichos on linguistic and (...)
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    ARRIAN'S EKTAXIS– TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY - (D.B.) Campbell Deploying a Roman Army. The Ektaxis kat’ Alanōn of Arrian. Pp. xiv + 214, figs, map. Glasgow: Quirinus Editions, 2022. Paper, £15.99, €18.80, US$20. ISBN: 979-8-80386862-0. [REVIEW]Philip Rance - 2023 - The Classical Review 73 (2):474-476.
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    Luttwak The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire. From the First Century ce to the Third. Revised and updated edition. Pp. xx + 276, ills, maps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016 . Paper, US$29.95 . ISBN: 978-1-4214-1945-9. [REVIEW]Philip Rance - 2017 - The Classical Review 67 (2):580-581.
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    The role of the military in the late Roman empire - hebblewhite the emperor and the army in the later Roman empire, ad 235–395. Pp. XVI + 240, ills. London and new York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £115, us$149.95. Isbn: 978-1-4724-5759-2. [REVIEW]Philip Rance - 2018 - The Classical Review 68 (2):523-526.
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