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
  • Demosthenes: Selected Speeches, Oxford University Press, 2014
  • Plutarch: Hellenistic Lives, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric, Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Diodorus 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 , 2001
  • 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
  • Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece, Oxford 2018
  • The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks, Oxford/Chicago 2021
  • Plato 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