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Robin Waterfield

Born

in The United Kingdom

August 06, 1952

Website

https://robinwaterfield.com/

Genre

Adaptor, History, Translator

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Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born 1952) is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction. 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. He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books. He is now a self-employed writer, living in southern Greece, where he has Greek citizenship.
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	The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5) by Robin Waterfield (Adaptor), John Grisham (Goodreads Author) (Creator) 4.07 avg rating — 640,109 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body (Penguin Readers, Level 5) by Robin Waterfield (Adaptor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 46,375 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misery by Robin Waterfield (Adaptor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Creator) 4.50 avg rating — 32,195 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greek Myths by Robin Waterfield, Kathryn Waterfield (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 1,750 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield (Editor / Translator), Anaximander, Anaximenes 3.95 avg rating — 1,020 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire 4.01 avg rating — 916 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Was Alexander the Great? by Robin Waterfield, Kathryn Waterfield (Goodreads Author), Andrew Thomson (Illustrations) 4.16 avg rating — 642 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece 3.93 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy 4.03 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pelican Brief (Penguin Readers, Level 5) by Robin Waterfield (Adapter), John Grisham (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 335 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robin Waterfield

Webs of Intrigue (2 books)
by

Robin Waterfield,

Wilfred Davies,

Malcolm Barter (Illustrator)

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“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
― Robin Waterfield, Republic

tags: plato, reading, understanding

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“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― Robin A.H. Waterfield, The Histories

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“If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say 'I love X' is somehow really to say 'X inspires love in me', and that love then attaches itself to objects other than X as well. The expansiveness of love is a natural means of ascent between levels.”
― Robin Waterfield

tags: ascent, diotima, plato, socrates, symposium

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