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Robin Lane Fox

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Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.

Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.

Since 1977, he has been a tutor in Greek and Roman history, and since 1990 University Reader in Ancient History. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history, a subject in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship, and is also New College's Tutor for Oriental Studies.[1] He is a lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford.

He was historical adviser to the film director Oliver Stone for the epic Alexander. His appearance as an extra, in addition to his work as a historical consultant, was publicized at t...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 966 ratings · 126 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Alexander The Great 3.87 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian 3.73 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible 3.70 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Pagans And Christians 3.64 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Search for Alexander 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Travelling Heroes: Greeks And Their Myths In The Epic Age Of Homer 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Making of Alexander: The Official Guide to the Epic Film Alexander 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Illustrated Garden Book by Robin Lane Fox, Vita Sackville-West (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One of the most interesting is the base of a dedication by one Klearchos, perhaps the known student of Aristotle, that records his bringing to this new Greek city, Alexandria on the Oxus, the traditional maxims from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi concerning the five ages of man:

In childhood, seemliness
In youth, self-control
In middle age, justice
In old age, wise council
In death, painlessness”
― Robin Lane Fox

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