Augustine

Fifty years ago we learned how much more there was to say when Peter Brown published his magnificent life, Augustine of Hippo … [Lane Fox] has now done Brown one better … Brown managed to tell the whole story, from birth to death, with great economy and flair. Fox aims for full immersion, and he conjures the intellectual and social life of the late Roman empire with an almost Proustian relish for detail. – Mark Lilla * New York Times Book Review *Undoubtedly a watershed in Augustinian studies … the magisterial and compellingly readable narrative … makes full and creative use of all the best recent scholarship. – Rowan Williams * New Statesman *

Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was until 2014 Reader in Ancient History in Oxford University. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorised Version (1992) and many books on classical history, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005) and Travelling Heroes (2008), all of which have been widely translated. He has been the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times since 1970.