Waterfield, Robin

Robin Waterfield (born 6 August 1952) is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction. He studied Classics at Manchester University and Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, subsequently lecturing at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities. Waterfield then transitioned to publishing, working as a copy-editor and commissioning editor for Penguin Books before becoming a self-employed writer. His extensive work includes translations of major classical texts by Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, and Aristotle, as well as original non-fiction works on ancient Greek history and philosophy. He has also authored children's adventure gamebooks and other fiction.