Robin Waterfield

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction.

WWW robinwaterfield.com

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, 1982Plato: Theaetetus, Penguin Books, 1987Plato: Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus in Plato: Early Socratic Dialogues, Penguin Books, 1987Ps.-Iamblichus: The Theology of Arithmetic, Phanes Press, 1988Xenophon: Conversations of Socrates, Penguin Books, 1990Plutarch: Essays, Penguin Books, 1992Epicurus: Letter on Happiness, Rider Books, 1993 Plato: Republic, Oxford University Press, 1993 Plato: Symposium, Oxford University Press, 1994Plato: Gorgias, Oxford University Press, 1994Plato: Statesman, Cambridge University Press, 1995Aristotle: Physics, Oxford University Press, 1996Xenophon: Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises, Penguin Books, 1997Herodotus: The Histories, Oxford University Press, 1998 Plutarch: Greek Lives, Oxford University Press, 1998Plutarch: Roman Lives, Oxford University Press, 1999The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists, Oxford University Press, 2000Euripides: Orestes and Other Plays, Oxford University Press, 2001Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays, Oxford University Press, 2002Plato: Phaedrus, Oxford University Press, 2002Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus, Oxford University Press, 2005Plato: Timaeus and Critias, Oxford University Press, 2008Polybius: The Histories, Oxford University Press, 2010Demosthenes: Selected Speeches, Oxford University Press, 2014Plutarch: Hellenistic Lives, Oxford University Press, 2016

Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric, Oxford University Press, 2018Diodorus of Sicily: The Library, Books 16-20. Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors, Oxford University Press, Basic Books. The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments, University of Chicago Press

General non-fiction

Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science, The Bristol Press, 1989 Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran, Allen Lane, 1998 Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary, Project Archelogos, 2001Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis, Macmillan, 2002 Athens: From Ancient Ideal to Modern City, Macmillan, 2003Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, Faber and Faber/Harvard University Press, 2006Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths, Faber and Faber/Norton/McClelland & Stewart, 2009Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, 2011The Greek Myths, with Kathryn Waterfield, Quercus 2012Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece, Oxford, 2014Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece, Oxford 2018The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks, Oxford/Chicago 2021Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy, Oxford 2023

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

Miscellaneous

The Count of Monte Cristo, Penguin Classics, 1996