Robin Lane Fox
Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
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Alexander the Great
30 editions
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1973
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The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
8 editions
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2005
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Pagans and Christians
13 editions
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1986
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The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible
16 editions
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1991
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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
16 editions
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1999
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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
18 editions
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2015
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
8 editions
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2020
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The Search for Alexander
4 editions
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1980
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The Making of Alexander: The Official Guide to the Epic Film Alexander
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2005
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The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand
3 editions
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2004
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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”
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In childhood, seemliness
In youth, self-control
In middle age, justice
In old age, wise council
In death, painlessness”
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“I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the simile of Hera's flight.”
― Travelling Heroes
― Travelling Heroes
“Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays”
― Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
― Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
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