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  1. In the Margins of Strabo: Menander Protector on Persian Religion and the Passio S. Isbozetae

    Article • Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, January 2024, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Dr. Philip Rance

  2. Clemens Koehn: Justinian und die Armee des frühen Byzanz

    Article • Gnomon, January 2024, Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH

    Dr. Philip Rance

  3. ARCHIMEDES AT SYRACUSE: TWO NEW WITNESSES TO CASSIUS DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY 15 (TZETZES’ CARMINA ILIACA AND HYPOMNEMA IN S. LVCIAM)

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, November 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  4. 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.

    Article • The Classical Review, June 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  5. Simplicitas militaris: Ammianus Marcellinus and sermo castrensis

    Article • November 2022, Brill

    Dr. Philip Rance

  6. A late Byzantine book inventory in Sofia, Dujčev gr. 253 (olim Kosinitsa 265) – a monastic or private library?

    Article • Byzantinische Zeitschrift, September 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr. Philip Rance

  7. 14 The Ideal of the Roman General in Byzantium: The Reception of Onasander’s Strategikos in Byzantine Military Literature

    Article • December 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr. Philip Rance

  8. Wars

    Article • November 2021, Brill

    Dr. Philip Rance

  9. Soldier and civilian in the Byzantine Empire c. 600–c. 900

    Article • April 2021, Manchester University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  10. The «Church Histories» of Theodore Lector and John Diakrinomenos

    Article • November 2020, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Dr. Philip Rance

  11. Health, Wounds, and Medicine in the Late Roman Army (250–600 CE)

    Article • December 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Philip Rance

  12. The Farmer and the Soldier Should Be Friends: Justinian's Legislation on the Provisioning of Soldiers (Novel 130)

    Article • Journal of Late Antiquity, January 2019, Project Muse

    Dr. Philip Rance

  13. THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE. (M.) 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.

    Article • The Classical Review, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  14. 12 Late Byzantine Elites and Military Literature: Authors, Readers and Manuscripts (c.1050-c.1450)

    Article • January 2018, Brill

    Dr. Philip Rance

  15. David Whitehead: Philo Mechanicus, On Sieges. Translated with Introduction and Com-mentary.

    Article • Gnomon, January 2018, Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH

    Dr. Philip Rance

  16. 11 The Army in Peace Time: The Social Status and Function of Soldiers

    Article • January 2018, Brill

    Dr. Philip Rance

  17. (E.N.) Luttwak The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire. From the First Centuryce to the Third. Revised and updated edition. Pp. xx + 276, ills, maps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016 (first edition 1976). Paper, US$29.95 (Cas...

    Article • The Classical Review, April 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  18. The Reception of Aineias’ Poliorketika in Byzantine Military Literature

    Article • January 2017, Brill

    Dr. Philip Rance

  19. A ROMAN-LAZI WAR IN THE SUDA: A FRAGMENT OF PRISCUS?

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, October 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  20. Languages: Late Empire

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Philip Rance

  21. II. Abteilung

    Article • Byzantinische Zeitschrift, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr. Philip Rance, Peter Isépy

  22. Athenaeus Mechanicus

    Article • January 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Philip Rance

  23. An unnoticed regimental diaconus in the correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrrhus

    Article • Historia, January 2014, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

    Dr. Philip Rance

  24. Philo of Byzantium

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Philip Rance

  25. Apollodoros of Damascus

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Philip Rance

  26. Epiphanius of Salamis and the Scotti: New Evidence for Late Roman-Irish Relations

    Article • Britannia, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  27. HANNIBAL, ELEPHANTS AND TURRETS IN SUDA Θ 438 [POLYBIUS FR. 162B] – AN UNIDENTIFIED FRAGMENT OF DIODORUS

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance

  28. The date of the military compendium of Syrianus Magister (Formerly the sixth-century anonymus Byzantinus)

    Article • Byzantinische Zeitschrift, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Dr. Philip Rance

  29. Noumera or Mounera: a parallel philological problem in De Cerimoniis and Maurice’s Strategikon

    Article • Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, January 2008, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Dr. Philip Rance

  30. “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

    Article • Philologus, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Dr. Philip Rance

  31. Drungus, drouggos, and drouggisti: A Gallicism and Continuity in late Roman Cavalry Tactics

    Article • Phoenix, January 2004, JSTOR

    Dr. Philip Rance

  32. Elephants in Warfare in Late Antiquity

    Article • Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, December 2003, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr. Philip Rance

  33. Attacotti, Deisi and Magnus Maximus: The Case for Irish Federates in Late Roman Britain

    Article • Britannia, January 2001, JSTOR

    Dr. Philip Rance

  34. Battle

    Article • December 1920, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Philip Rance