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Travelling Heroes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 21.95The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime?s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer.... more...
Thoughtful Gardening
Basic Books 2010; US$ 17.99With wit and wisdom, Oxford historian and Financial Times gardening columnist Robin Lane Fox recounts his deep passion and appreciation for gardening more...
Travelling Heroes
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableThis remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks... more...
The Unauthorized Version
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableThe Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating - but is it true? Starting with Genesis and the implicit background to the birth of Christ, Robin Lane Fox sets out to discover how far biblical descriptions of people, places and events are confirmed or contradicted by external written and archaeological evidence. He turns a sharp historian's... more...
Alexander the Great
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableTough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader... more...
Pagans and Christians
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableHow did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian... more...
The Classical World
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableThe classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox?s spellbinding history spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of... more...
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