Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.[1]
Life
Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Since 1977, he has been a tutor in Greek and Roman history, and since 1990 University Reader in Ancient History. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history, a subject in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship, and is also New College's Tutor for Oriental Studies.[1] He is a lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford.
He was historical advisor to the film director Oliver Stone for the epic Alexander. His appearance as an extra, in addition to his work as a historical consultant, was publicized at the time of the film's release.[2][3]
Lane Fox is also a gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.[4]
He is the father of the internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, the founder of Lastminute.com.
They are not related to, and should not be confused with Robin Fox, anthropologist, and his daughter Kate Fox, social anthropologist.
Selected publications
- Alexander the Great (New York: E P Dutton, 1974, ISBN 978-9993440048) (awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
- The Search for Alexander (London: Viking, 1981, ISBN 978-0713913958)
- Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine (London: Viking, 1986, ISBN 978-0670808489; Penguin Books Ltd new edition, 2006, ISBN 978-0141022956)
- Better Gardening (London: David R. Godine Publ., 1986, ISBN 978-0879236113)
- The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible (1991; new edition by Penguin Books Ltd, 2006, ISBN 978-0141022963)
- The Making of "Alexander": The Official Guide to the Epic Alexander Film (London: R & L (Lane Fox), 2004, ISBN 978-0951139219)
- The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian (London: Allen Lane, 2005, ISBN 978-0713998535)
- Page, Russell, The Education of a Gardener (New York Review of Books reprint, 2007), preface by Robin Lane Fox
- Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008, ISBN 978-0713999808)
References
- ^ a b Mr Robin Lane Fox MA Fellow, Tutor and Reader in Ancient History at new.ox.ac.uk, accessed 9 August 2008
- ^ Into Battle With Alexander in The Times of London online, dated 04 May 2004
- ^ CHARGING FOR ALEXANDER dated Wednesday 19 April 2006 at bbc.co.uk/bbcfour
- ^ Gnomes spark row over fairies at Chelsea in The Independent, dated 25 May 2006
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