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Robin Lane Fox

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Also known as Robin James Lane Fox

British historian, educator and writer (born 1946)

Person · Open Library

Born
1946
Works
29

Top works

  • El mundo clásico
  • Alexander der Grosse
  • De klassieke wereld
  • Truth and Fiction in the Bible
  • The Search For Alexander

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1991-10-11
composerdeltarunedigital fusionelectronicindie game soundtrackmusical comedy

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Listeners
21
Total plays
212

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Quotes

  • He was still in a world of Greek gods and sacrifices, of Greek plays and Greek language,though the natives might speak Greek with a northern accent which hardened 'ch' into 'g','th' into 'd' and pronounced King Philip as Bilip.
  • Philip's mother had been a Lyncestian noblewoman" - "rebellious kings of Lyncestis who traced their origins to the notorious Bacchiad kings of Greek Corinth.
  • Olympia's royal ancestry traced back to the hero Achilles, and the blood of Helen of Troy was believed to run on her father's side.
  • The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.
  • But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.
  • No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings.

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