El mundo clásico

Robin Lane Fox teaches ancient history at Oxford and is also a great storyteller. From this fortunate combination has emerged a different history book of the classical world, which has the rigor of good academic work - and has therefore deserved the praise of a specialist like Peter Jones - and the amenity of a story about which critics have said which is "incredibly entertaining" and "more epic than the best Roman movie." Because, if something characterizes this fascinating tour of the world of classical antiquity from Homer to Hadrian, it is precisely the constant presence of the human touch: its ability to evoke figures such as Socrates, Alexander, Cicero or Caesar and to speak to us, at the same time, about the daily life of the citizens, the last days of Pompeii or the circus games, in pages that give us back the charm of the best historical narrative.