![]() ![]() ![]() The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world.Ĭombining historical scholarship and acute psychological insight, Alexander the Great brings this colossal figure vividly to life. 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. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India. 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 Unauthorised Version (1992) and many books on classical history, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005) and Travelling Heroes (2008), all of. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. Jims Book Talk: Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox - YouTube An engaging Book Talk presentation centred around the aforementioned work and a theme of Leaders during Wartime. Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was until 2014 Reader in Ancient History in Oxford University. Seasonal (Christmas / Easter / Holidays)įrom award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. ![]()
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