Robin Waterfield
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Robin A. H. Waterfield is a writer and translator currently residing in Greece. He was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University in 1974, where he achieved a 1:1. 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 St Andrews University. 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.
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[edit] Works
[edit] 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: Anabasis
[edit] 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, 2006
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
