LANE-FOX ROBIN

(P/B) THOUGHTFUL GARDENING
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 on his lifetime of practical gardening, including his years as Garden Master of New College, Oxford, and contains many memories of fellow gardeners, from Christopher Lloyd to Nancy Lancaster. The book is essential reading for anyone setting out on a new garden or taking stock of one. It takes...
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(P/B) PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS
How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by side in the context of civil life and contrasts their religious experiences, visions, cults and oracles. Leading up to the time of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, the book aims to enlarge and confirm the value of contemporary evidence, some of which has only recently been discovered. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE CLASSICAL WORLD
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 Chris...
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(P/B) TRAVELLING HEROES
The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. But where did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime's knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, to open up the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cor...
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(P/B) ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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 miles, spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled - he had excelled as leader to his men, founded eighteen new cities and stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Robin Lane Fox's supe...
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(H/B) THE INVENTION OF MEDICINE
Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have ...
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(P/B) THE UNAUTHORISED VERSION
The Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating - but is it true? Starting with Genesis and the implicit background to the birth of Christ, Robin Lane Fox sets out to discover how far biblical descriptions of people, places and events are confirmed or contradicted by external written and archaeological evidence. He turns a sharp historian's eye on when and where the individual books were composed, whether the texts as originally written exist, how the canon was assembled, and why the Gospels give varying accounts even of the...
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Ο ΚΛΑΣΙΚΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - ΤΟ ΕΠΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ
Αναγκάστηκα να κάνω αυστηρή επιλογή και να μιλήσω ελάχιστα για θέματα που αισθάνομαι πως γνωρίζω καλά. Μια πλευρά του εαυτού μου είναι στραμμένη ακόμα στον Όμηρο και μια άλλη στα Λευκάδια της Μακεδονίας και στα καταπράσινα περιβόλια τους, όπου ο θολωτός μου τάφος, κοσμημένος με την απεικόνιση των τριών μεγάλων αλόγων μου, τα τριαντάφυλλα με τα εξήντα πέταλα, τις χορεύτριες από τη Βακτριανή και τις μυθικές γυναίκες, αναμένει την αποκάλυψή του από τους ικανούς εφόρους της Ελληνικής Αρχαιολογικής Υπηρεσίας το 2056. Επέλεξα να αφιερώσω ελαφρώς...
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THE CLASSICAL WORLD

(H/B) THE CLASSICAL WORLD