Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is an emeritus fellow at New College, Oxford. He's the author of many books on ancient and classical history, including Augustine, Alexander the Great, and The Classical World, which was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2006 by the Washington Post Book World. He lives in Oxford, England.

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines

Robin Lane Fox Considers the Movement of Homer's Epic

October 30, 2023 By Robin Lane Fox

What the World’s First Medical Records Tell Us About
Ancient Life

Robin Lane Fox on the History of Epidemics

December 11, 2020 By Robin Lane Fox

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