{{Short description|British classical scholar, writer of children's fiction (born 1952)}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} '''Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield''' (born 6 August 1952)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robin Waterfield {{!}} Author {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/author/waterfieldrobin |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008</ref> He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinclassics.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000034189,00.html |title=Robin H. Waterfield – Penguin Classics Authors – Penguin Classics |publisher=Penguinclassics.ca |date= |accessdate=9 July 2014}}</ref> 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{{Fact|date=June 2022}} (Polish ed., eMPi2 1998)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wodny Pająk - Wydawnictwo eMPi2 |url=http://www.empi2.pl/wodny-pajak-p-889.html |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=www.empi2.pl |language=pl}}</ref> * ''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=== {{reflist}}
==References== * ''Bound to Please'', by Michael Dirda, W.W. Norton, 2005, pp. 5–9.
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.robinwaterfield.com/ }} {{Portal |Children's literature}}
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