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The Classical World
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  • Published: 25 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141997674
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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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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A comprehensive and enthralling introduction to the Classical World, ideal for those whose interest in the subject has been speaked by the recent BBC series, Rome, or who enjoyed Gladiator

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: 25 March 2021
  • ISBN: 9780141997674
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorized Version (1992) and many books on classical history, all of which have been widely translated, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005), Travelling Heroes (2008) and Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (2015), which won the Wolfson Prize for History. He has been the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times since 1970.
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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