Robin Waterfield
Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction.Career
Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974. He went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge until 1978, after which he became a lecturer at Newcastle University and then St Andrews University. He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books. He is now a self-employed writer.Works
Translations
- Plato: Philebus, Penguin Books, 1982
- Plato: Theaetetus, Penguin Books, 1987
- Plato: Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus in Plato: Early Socratic Dialogues, Penguin Books, 1987
- Ps.-Iamblichus: The Theology of Arithmetic, Phanes Press, 1988
- Xenophon: Conversations of Socrates, Penguin Books, 1990
- Plutarch: Essays, Penguin Books, 1992
- Epicurus: Letter on Happiness, Rider Books, 1993
- Plato: Republic, Oxford University Press, 1993
- Plato: Symposium, Oxford University Press, 1994
- Plato: Gorgias, Oxford University Press, 1994
- Plato: Statesman, Cambridge University Press, 1995
- Aristotle: Physics, Oxford University Press, 1996
- Xenophon: Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises, Penguin Books, 1997
- Herodotus: The Histories, Oxford University Press, 1998
- Plutarch: Greek Lives, Oxford University Press, 1998
- Plutarch: Roman Lives, Oxford University Press, 1999
- The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists, Oxford University Press, 2000
- Euripides: Orestes and Other Plays, Oxford University Press, 2001
- Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays, Oxford University Press, 2002
- Plato: Phaedrus, Oxford University Press, 2002
- Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus, Oxford University Press, 2005
- Plato: Timaeus and Critias, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Polybius: The Histories, Oxford University Press, 2010
General non-fiction
- Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran, Allen Lane, 1998
- Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis, Macmillan, 2002
- Athens: From Ancient Ideal to Modern City, Macmillan, 2003
- Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, Faber and Faber/Harvard University Press, 2006
- Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths, Faber and Faber/Norton/McClelland & Stewart, 2009
- Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, 2011
- The Greek Myths, with Kathryn Waterfield, Quercus 2012
- Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece, Oxford, 2014
Children's adventure gamebooks
- Rebel Planet, Puffin Books, 1985
- Masks of Mayhem, Puffin Books, 1986
- Phantoms of Fear, Puffin Books, 1987
- The Money Spider, Penguin Books, 1988
- The Water Spider, Penguin Books, 1988
- Deathmoor, Puffin Books, 1994
Academic titles
- Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science, The Bristol Press, 1989
- Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary, Project Archelogos , 2001
