Robin waterfield biography

British classical scholar, writer of children's fiction (born 1952)

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born on the 6th of August in 1952)^[1] 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.^[2] He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books.^[3] 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