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Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
$31.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles, spanning from Greece to India.
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
$65.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more
The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide by Kirsty McLeod; Primrose Bell (Photographer); Robin Lane Fox (Introduction by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied. During the past few years Italy has awoken to a realization of its gardens. In a gardening renai ...Show more
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. Robin Lane Fox's spellbinding history spans almost a th ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$55.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medici ...Show more
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