Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. He was Oxford University reader in ancient history from 1990 until his retirement in 2014. His book The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome won the Runciman Award, and Augustine: Conversions and Confessions won the UK’s Wolfson History Prize for the best book on any period of history published in that year. His latest book is The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates.