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Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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.
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admi ...Show more
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This book offers a major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies. Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to del ...Show more
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
$65.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more
Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine by Robin Lane Fox
$48.99 AUD
Category: History
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. L ...Show more
The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Emperor Hadrian was arguably the first classicist, captivated by a classical past and society he could already identify as something apart. In this one-volume history of the ancient world up to his death, Robin Lane Fox traces the development of classical civilisation from its origins in the 9th cen ...Show more
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 th ...Show more
The Classical World - An Epic History of Greece and Rome (Popular Penguin) by Robin Lane Fox
$9.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World brings together the epic histories of Greece and Rome. His panoramic account spans centuries of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy to the expansion of the Roman Empire, and brings to life such great figures as Homer, Alexander the Great, Juliu ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
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 medici ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine 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 ...Show more
Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners by Robin Lane Fox
$49.95 AUD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good
"Thoughtful Gardening" is Robin Lane Fox's first gardening book in twenty-five years, and marks the fortieth year of his weekly columns on gardening for the "Financial Times". It is based on his own selection from these widely admired pieces, which he has rewritten and amplified with new chapters to tak ...Show more
Travelling Heroes : the Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
$59.95 AUD
Category: History
This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archaeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main si ...Show more