Robin Lane Fox

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Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English academic and historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and University Reader in Ancient History. He is the father of internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, famously the founder of Lastminute.com.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford.

He has written numerous books and articles, including Alexander the Great, Pagans and Christians, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible and the recently released The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian. Lane Fox has taught Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history and early Islamic history in which he held an Oxford Research Fellowship.

Recently he was historical advisor to film director Oliver Stone for the epic Alexander, in which he can be seen as a Macedonian general in a main battle scene. Fox gave up his screen credit so he could take part in this scene (see External links).

Robin Lane Fox is also weekly gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.

[edit] External links

• Into Battle With Alexander - The Times Online (UK), 04 May 2004.
• Gnomes spark row over fairies at Chelsea - Independent (UK), 25 May 2006.