The Classical World
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  • Published: 28 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141902661
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 720
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The Classical World

An Epic History of Greece and Rome

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28 Aug 2006
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25 Mar 2021
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28 Aug 2006
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The 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 the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian. Bringing great figures such as Homer, Socrates, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Augustus and the first Christian martyrs to life, exploring freedom, justice and luxury, this wonderfully exciting tour brings the turbulent histories of Greece and Rome together in a masterly study.
  • Published: 28 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141902661
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 720
Categories:

About the author

Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox was born in 1946 and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of New College and University Reader in ancient History. Since 1979 he has been weekly gardening correspondent of the Financial Times. Alexander the Great won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award on its first publication in 1973.

Also by Robin Lane Fox

The Invention of Medicine
Thoughtful Gardening
Homer and His Iliad
Augustine
Travelling Heroes
Pagans and Christians
The Unauthorized Version
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Praise for The Classical World

witty, ferociously learned, enormously well read

Mary Beard, The Independent

The Classical World is a more epic epic than any toga-clad celluloid epic to date... Mr Lane Fox's brilliant book, where soldiers, poets and orators fight for attention in a story that is never cluttered and always stimulating.

The Economist

witty, ferociously learned, enormously well read

Mary Beard, The Independent

an ambitious and exhilarating volume...The Classical World is so replete with insight and anecdote that I would love to see it in every school library.

Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

we are in the hands of an author who knows that an epic can only be driven by big characters such as Pericles, Demosthenes, Philip, Cicero, Pompey, Caesar and Cleopatra...Here lies the author's mastery, matching a lifelong familiarity with his subject to the basic needs of a newly arrived apprentice

Nigel Spivey, FT