Robin Waterfield

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield 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 St Andrews University. [Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008 ] He has also worked as a copy-editor and commissioning editor for Penguin Books [http://www.penguinclassics.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000034189,00.html] . He is now a self-employed writer and consultant editor, and his publications range from academic articles to children's fiction.

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 (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

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

Children's Adventure Gamebooks

* "Rebel Planet", Puffin Books (Puffin Fighting Fantasy Gamebook 18), 1985 (French ed., Gallimard 1986; U.S. 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

* "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 (U.S. ed., St Martin's Press, 1989)

* "Plato: Gorgias, Analysis and Commentary", Project Archelogos [e-publication] , 2001

References

Notes

Bibliography

* "Bound to Please", by Michael Dirda p 5-9, W.W. Norton, 2005.