British historian, educator and writer (born 1946)
This article is about the historian. For the anthropologist, see Robin Fox. For the theatrical agent, see Robin Fox (theatrical agent).
Robin Lane Fox
FRSL
Robin Lane Fox at Financial Times 125th Anniversary Party, London, in June 2013
Born
Robin James Lane Fox
(1946-10-05) 5 October 1946 (age 77)
Nationality
British
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford
Occupation(s)
Educator, author
Known for
Historian of classical antiquity
Children
Martha
Henry
Robin James Lane Fox, FRSL (born 5 October 1946)[1] is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great.[2] 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.[3][4]
His major publications, for which he has won literary prizes including the James Tait Black Award,[5] the Duff Cooper Prize,[6] the Heinemann Award[7] and the Runciman Award,[8] include studies of Alexander the Great and Ancient Macedon, Late Antiquity, Christianity and Paganism, the Bible and history, and the Greek Dark Ages. In addition, he is the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times.
^"Robin Lane Fox profile at Debrett's People of Today".
^"Travelling Heroes, By Robin Lane Fox". The Independent. 31 October 2008.
^"Lane Fox | New College Oxford". www.new.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 April 2011.
^"Classics - Exeter College". Retrieved 26 October 2018.
^"Lane Fox profile at the Tait Black website". Retrieved 26 October 2018.
^Press, Orphans. "Past Winners of The Duff Cooper Prize - The Duff Cooper Prize". www.theduffcooperprize.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
^"Lane Fox profile". Folio Society. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^"Profile of Lane Fox at the Runciman Award winners webpage of the Anglo-Hellenic League" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2013.
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Great. MA, USA: Blackwell. ISBN 1-4051-1210-7 LaneFox, Robin (1973) Alexander the Great. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-14-102076-8 Martin, Thomas R., Blackwell...
interpretation was first suggested in 1952 and remains widely accepted, but RobinLaneFox (2009) has criticized it as implausible. Michael Brown, who has been...
Banarsidass. ISBN 81-208-0433-3. RobinLaneFox (1973). Alexander the Great. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-86007-707-1. RobinLaneFox (1980). The Search for Alexander...
1948 The four sources are given in RobinLaneFox, Alexander the Great (1973) 1986: Notes to Chapter 10, p. 518; Fox recounts the anecdote, pp. 149–151...
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry LaneFox Pitt Rivers FRS FSA FRAI (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist...
honoring Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. According to RobinLaneFox, Alexander and Hephaestion were possible lovers. After Hephaestion's...
original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved Aug 22, 2011. Alexander the Great. RobinLaneFox. 1973. p. 416. ISBN 9780713905007. Yādnāmah-ʾi Panjumīn Kungrih-ʾi Bayn...
message, it is above all that there were once Cretan priests at Delphi." RobinLaneFox notes that Cretan bronzes are found at Delphi from the eighth century...
now believed to be buried in these old and imposing sites", observes RobinLaneFox. In other words, this is a clear cut example of an origin story for...
the life of Alexander and the story may be apocryphal. The biographer RobinLaneFox traces her legend back to the Roman authors Pliny (Natural History)...
walked with spindles" In the adjacent region of North Syria, historian RobinLaneFox remarks funerary stelae showing men holding cups as if feasting and...
in southern Italy, and was then used for all Greeks. The classicist RobinLaneFox states that Oropus was either located in or identical with the city...
("inclusum[...] Oricia terebintho [...] ebur"). Terebinth is referred to by RobinLaneFox in Alexander the Great: "When a Persian king took the throne, he attended...
that had not taken on the form it later would in pederasty.[relevant?] RobinLaneFox has written that "There is certainly no evidence in the text of the...
in thanks for the traveller's safe arrival after a storm", observes RobinLaneFox. According to Cross the stone had been erected by a general, Milkaton...
is on display at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. According to RobinLaneFox, the stater as a weight unit was borrowed by the Euboean stater weighing...
the slave of his insatiable ambition. In his biography of Alexander, RobinLaneFox sets the encounter in 336, the only time Alexander was in Corinth. The...
Ocean theories. Recently by RobinLaneFox, Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer, 2008, ch. "Finding Neverland"; Lane summarizes the literature in...
an openly absolute monarchy to replace a sham senatorial republic. RobinLaneFox credits Hadrian as creator of a unified Greco-Roman cultural tradition...
against the LXX or Vulgate." R.H. Charles, "7. Textual Affinities" RobinLaneFox, a classicist and historian, discusses these multifarious sources of...
remarried in 2006 Louisa Lane-Fox, former wife of historian RobinLaneFox and mother of Martha LaneFox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho). Tony Keswick's son...
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