by Robin Lane Fox · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141021416
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«The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome» is the history work by Robin Lane Fox published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback, in English.
The book covers nearly a thousand years of classical world history, from the founding of democracy in Athens to the Roman Empire under Hadrian. The narrative includes Homer, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus and the first Christian martyrs, and addresses freedom, justice and luxury in Greek and Roman societies.
The volume consists of 720 pages, was published in 2006 and won the Runciman Prize that year.
For readers of ancient history, the classical world and Greco-Roman civilization.
Robin James Lane Fox, is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College from 1977 to 2014, he serves as Garden Master and as Extraordinary Lecturer in Ancient History for both New College and Exeter College. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history.
