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Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born 1952) is a British
classical scholar Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction.


Career

Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied
Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
at
Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974. He went on to research ancient
Greek philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC, marking the end of the Greek Dark Ages. Greek philosophy continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Greece and most Greek-inhabited lands were part of the Roman Empi ...
at
King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...
until 1978, after which he became a lecturer at
Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
and then
St Andrews University (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...
. He later became a copy-editor and later a
commissioning editor In book publishing, a commissioning editor is essentially a buyer. It is the job of the commissioning editor to advise the publishing house on which books to publish. Usually the actual decision of whether to contract a book is taken by a senior ma ...
for
Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Agesilaus Agesilaus II (; grc-gre, Ἀγησίλαος ; c. 442 – 358 BC) was king of Sparta from c. 399 to 358 BC. Generally considered the most important king in the history of Sparta, Agesilaus was the main actor during the period of Spartan hegemony ...
, Hiero, Ways and Means,
On Horsemanship ''On Horsemanship'' is the English title usually given to ', ''peri hippikēs'', one of the two treatises on horsemanship by the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC). Other common titles for this work are ''De equis alendis' ...
, 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 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...
, ''Meditations: The Annotated Edition'' (translated and annotated), Basic Books (2021). * ''The Complete Works of
Epictetus Epictetus (; grc-gre, Ἐπίκτητος, ''Epíktētos''; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, when ...
: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments'' (translated, edited, introduction and notes), University of Chicago Press (2022)


General non-fiction

* ''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) * ''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


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)


Academic titles

* ''Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science'', The Bristol Press, 1989 (US ed., St Martin's Press, 1989) * ''Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary'', Project Archelogos -publication 2001


Notes


References

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


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Waterfield, Robin 1952 births British classical scholars English children's writers British scholars of ancient Greek philosophy Living people Classical scholars of the University of St Andrews Classical scholars of Newcastle University Translators of Ancient Greek texts English male writers