Robin Lane Fox
British classical scholar and historian specializing in ancient Greece and Alexander the Great; author and long-time Oxford academic.
Books
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
-
1. Alexander The Great
A vivid, authoritative biography that reconstructs Alexander’s life and campaigns from Macedonia through Persia to India, combining close reading of ancient sources with lively narrative and rigorous scholarship; it traces his military genius and logistical skill, explores his complex personality and motives, and situates his policy of cultural fusion and monarchy-building in the wider political and social consequences that culminated in his sudden death in Babylon and the creation of the Hellenistic world.
Purchase from Bookshop.org