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, Lecturer in Ancient History at Exeter College, Oxford and University Reader in Ancient History. He is the father of the 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 (for which he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize),
Pagans and Christians,
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible (1991; reprinted 2006)
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 Companion cavalryman in the battle of Gaugamela (with a full-screen shot), and less prominently during the battle of the Hydaspes. His participation as an on-screen extra, in return for his work as historical consultant, was much publicised at the time of the release of the movie. Robin Lane Fox is also weekly gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.