Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Robin Lane Fox
Born: October 5, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Robin James Lane Fox is an English classicist, ancient historian and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford.
Known for:
- The Classical World (2005)
- Pagans and Christians (1986)
- Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (2015)
- The unauthorized version (1991)
- Thoughtful Gardening (2010)