Robin Lane Fox enseña historia antigua en Oxford y es, además, un gran narrador. De esta afortunada combinación ha surgido un libro de historia del mundo clásico distinto, que tiene el rigor del buen trabajo académico...
Quienes desprecian a Alejandro Magno lo detestan por las vidas que se perdieron en la prosecución de sus propias ambiciones. Este libro constituye un intento de presentar lo que su magnitud pudo haber sido. Alejandro no era un soñador, pero...
Thoughtful Gardening is based on Robin Lane Fox's own selection from his widely admired FT column, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to take readers on a highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year. It draws...
Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales.
Subtitled, )The Epic History Of Greece & Rome(. A comprehensive and enthralling introduction to the Classical World, that spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic...
Tough, resolute, fearless. Alexander was a born warrior and a ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 B.C.E. at age thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million...
Tough, 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...
The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in 401â399 B.C, their hopes and hardships reco...