This summer I am planning a binge on Homer...So, I shall be taking along Robin Lane Fox's new Homer and his Iliad...I always like the way he annoys me. -- Mary Beard - Times Literary Supplement

The result of a lifetime's dedication to the Iliad - personally and professionally ... This is a compelling and impressive work ... his enthusiasm is infectious ... The book did achieve its aim: It sent me back to the Iliad. -- Gavanndra Hodge - Sunday Times

This book is the expression of the professor's lifelong love for the poem he believes to be the greatest in the world, Brilliant teacher that he is, he conveys that passion to readers ... Contained within the 15,000 plus lines of this 2,600-year-old poem, as Robin Lane Fox explains so vividly in his excellent new book, is life and death in all its pathos, pity and contradictions. -- Bronwen Riley - Country Life

Lane Fox, 76, armed with over 60 years of classical education, bravely sets out to answer the great Homeric questions. Like a donnish Sherlock Holmes ... an engaging, scholarly commentary on the Iliad's main characters ... particularly good on nature -- Harry Mount - The Oldie

Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorized Version (1992) and many books on classical history, all of which have been widely translated, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005), Travelling Heroes (2008) and Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (2015), which wonthe Wolfson Prize for History. He has been the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times since 1970.