Robin Waterfield

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born 6 August 1952) 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 (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. Trevor Saunders), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1987 Ps.-Iamblichus: The Theology of Arithmetic (translation, introduction, notes; foreword by Keith 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 Hugh Tredennick), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1990 Plutarch: Essays (translations; introductions and notes by Ian Kidd), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1992 Epicurus: Letter on Happiness (translation and biography; introduction by John 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 Julia Annas), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), 1995 Aristotle: Physics (translation; introduction and notes by David 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 Paul Cartledge), Penguin Books (Penguin Classics), 1997 Herodotus: The Histories (translation; introduction and notes by Carolyn 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 Philip Stadter), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1998 Plutarch: Roman Lives (translations; introductions and notes by Philip 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 Edith Hall; notes by James Morwood), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2001 Euripides: Heracles and Other Plays (Alcestis, Heracles, Heraclidae, Cyclops; translations; introduction by Edith Hall; notes by James 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 Tim Rood), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2005 Plato: Timaeus and Critias (translation; introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2008 Polybius: The Histories (translation; introduction and notes by Brian McGing), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2010 Demosthenes: Selected Speeches (translation; introduction and notes by Chris Carey), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2014 Plutarch: Hellenistic Lives (translation; introduction and notes by Andrew Erskine), Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2016 Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric (translation; introduction and notes by Harvey 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). The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments (translated, edited, introduction and notes), University of Chicago Press (2022) Aesop's Fables (translation, introduction, notes), Basic Books (2024) The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius (translation, introduction), Basic Books (2025) Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (translation; introduction by Polly Low), Basic Books (2025)

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 (Polish ed., eMPi2 1998) 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