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Robin Waterfield

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Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born on the 6th of August in 1952)^[1] 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.^[2] He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books.^[3] He is now a self-employed writer.

Works

Translations

Plato: Philebus (translation, introduction, notes), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1982
Plato: Theaetetus (translation, introduction, notes), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1987
Plato: Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus (translations, introductions, notes) in Plato: Early Socratic Dialogues (ed. T.J. Saunders), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1987
Ps.-Iamblichus: The Theology of Arithmetic (translation, introduction, notes; foreword by K. Critchlow), Phanes Press, 1988
Xenophon: Conversations of Socrates (translations of Apology, Memorabilia, Symposium and Oeconomicus, with introductions and notes; partly a revision of earlier versions by H. Tredennick), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1990
Plutarch: Essays (translations; introductions and notes by I.G. Kidd), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1992
Epicurus: Letter on Happiness (translation and biography; introduction by J. McDade, S.J.), Rider Books, 1993 (US ed. Chronicle Books, 1996)
Plato: Republic (translation, introduction, notes), Oxford University Press, 1993 (World's Classics, 1994; Book of the Month Club, February 1994)
Plato: Symposium (translation, introduction, notes), Oxford University Press (World's Classics), 1994
Plato: Gorgias (translation, introduction, notes), Oxford University Press (World's Classics), 1994
Plato: Statesman (translation; introduction and notes by J. Annas), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), 1995
Aristotle: Physics (translation; introduction and notes by D. Bostock), Oxford University Press (World's Classics), 1996
Xenophon: Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises (translations of Agesilaus, Hiero, Ways and Means, On Horsemanship, On Hunting and Hipparchicus; introductions and notes by P. Cartledge), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1997
Herodotus: The Histories (translation; introduction and notes by C. Dewald), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1998 (History Book Club, Book of the Month Club, Reader's Subscription, BCA)
Plutarch: Greek Lives (translations; introductions and notes by P. Stadter), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1998
Plutarch: Roman Lives (translations; introductions and notes by P. Stadter), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1999
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists (translations, introductions, notes), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2000
Euripides: Orestes and Other Plays (Ion, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliant Women; translations; introduction by E. Hall; notes by J. Morwood), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2001
Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays (Alcestis, Heracles, Heraclidae, Cyclops; translations; introduction by E. Hall; notes by J. Morwood), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2002
Plato: Phaedrus (translation, introduction, notes), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2002
Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus (translation; introduction and notes by T. Rood), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2005
Plato: Timaeus and Critias (translation; introduction and notes by A. Gregory), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2008
Polybius: The Histories (translation; introduction and notes by B. McGing), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2010
Demosthenes: Selected Speeches (translation; introduction and notes by C. Carey), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2014
Plutarch: Hellenistic Lives (translation; introduction and notes by A. Erskine), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2016
Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric (translation; introduction and notes by H. Yunis), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2018
Diodorus of Sicily: The Library, Books 16-20. Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Successors (translation, introduction, notes), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics, 2019
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: The Annotated Edition (translated and annotated), Basic Books (2021). ISBN 9781541673854
The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments (translated, edited, introduction and notes), University of Chicago Press (2022) ISBN 9780226769332

General non-fiction

Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science, The Bristol Press, 1989 (US ed., St Martin's Press, 1989)
Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran, Allen Lane, 1998 (Penguin, 1999; US ed., St Martin's Press, 1998; TSP Book Club; Italian ed., Guanda, 2000; Spanish ed., Editorial Complutense, 2000; French ed., Editions Fides-Bellarmin, 2000)
Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary, Project Archelogos [e-publication], 2001
Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis, Macmillan, 2002 (Spanish ed., Debate, 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 (Puffin Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 18), 1985 (French ed., Gallimard 1986; US ed., Dell 1986; computer game, Adventure Soft 1986; Japanese ed., Shakai Shiso Sha 1987; Danish ed., Borgen 1987; Portuguese ed., Verbo 1991; Brazilian Portuguese ed., Marques-Saraiva, 1992; Czech ed., Perseus 1997)
Masks of Mayhem , Puffin Books (Puffin Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 23), 1986 (French ed., Gallimard 1987; Japanese ed., Shakai Shiso Sha 1988; Danish ed., Borgen 1988; German ed., Thienemann 1989; Hungarian ed., Taketa 1992; Portuguese ed., Verbo 1993; Hebrew ed., Opus 1993; Czech ed., Perseus, 1999)
Phantoms of Fear , Puffin Books (Puffin Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 28), 1987 (French ed., Gallimard 1988; Danish ed., Borgen 1989; Japanese ed., Shakai Shiso Sha 1989)
The Money Spider (with Wilfred Davies), Penguin Books (Penguin Plus), 1988 (Polish ed., eMPi2 1996)
The Water Spider (with Wilfred Davies), Penguin Books (Penguin Plus), 1988^{[ citation needed ]} (Polish ed., eMPi2 1998)^[4]
Deathmoor , Puffin Books (Puffin Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 55), 1994 (French ed., Gallimard 1996)

Miscellaneous

The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged by Robin Waterfield), Penguin Classics, 1996

Notes

↑ "Robin Waterfield | Author | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
↑ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008
↑ "Robin H. Waterfield – Penguin Classics Authors – Penguin Classics". Penguinclassics.ca. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
↑ "Wodny Pająk - Wydawnictwo eMPi2". www.empi2.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.

References

Bound to Please, by Michael Dirda, W.W. Norton, 2005, pp. 5–9.

External links

Official website

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[1] "Robin Waterfield | Author | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 14 January 2025.

[2] Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008

[3] "Robin H. Waterfield – Penguin Classics Authors – Penguin Classics". Penguinclassics.ca. Retrieved 9 July 2014.

[4] "Wodny Pająk - Wydawnictwo eMPi2". www.empi2.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.

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