Robin Waterfield

Robin Waterfield (Robin A.H. Waterfield) is a writer and translator currently residing in Greece.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

He was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University in 1974, where he achieved a 1:1.

Career[]

After this, 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 University of St Andrews. He has also worked as a copy-editor and commissioning editor for Penguin Books. He is now a self-employed writer and consultant editor, and his publications range from academic articles to children's fiction.

Bibliography[]

Fighting Fantasy[]

Writer

Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks[]

(#18) Rebel Planet (Puffin, 1985)
(#23) Masks of Mayhem (Puffin, 1986)
(#28) Phantoms of Fear (Puffin, 1987)
(#55) Deathmoor (Puffin, 1994)

Outside of Fighting Fantasy[]

Writer

Other Gamebooks[]

The Money Spider (Penguin Books (Penguin Plus), 1988 (Polish ed., eMPi2, 1996)) (with Wilfred Davies)
The Water Spider (Penguin Books (Penguin Plus), 1988) (with Wilfred Davies)

General Non-Fiction[]

Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran (Allen Lane, 1998 (Penguin, 1999; U.S. 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))
The Rise and Fall of Athens (Macmillan, 2003)
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age (Faber and Faber/Harvard University Press, 2006)

Academic Titles[]

J. Adam, The Nuptial Number of Plato (editor, Thorsons Publishers, 1985)
Before Eureka: The Presocratics and Their Science (The Bristol Press, 1989 (U.S. ed., St Martin's Press, 1989))
Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary, Project Archelogos ([e-publication], 2001)

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)
Anatolius: On the Decad (Kairos Newsletter 1988, pp. 20-37 (translation, notes); reprinted with minor corrections in Alexandria 3 (1995), pp. 180-94)
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 (U.S. 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)

External Links[]

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