Robin H. Waterfield

Robin Waterfield was born in 1952. He graduated from Manchester University in 1974 and went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge. He has been a university lecturer (at Newcastle upon Tyne and St Andrews), and a copy-editor and a commissioning editor for Penguin Books. In between, and currently, he makes a living as a self-employed writer and consultant editor. His publications range from academic articles to children's fiction. He has translated various Greek philosophical texts, including several for the Penguin Classics: Xenophon's Conversations With Socrates, Plutarch's Essays, Plato's Philebus and Theaetetus and (in Plato's Early Socratic Dialogues) Hippias Major, Hippias Minor and Euthydemus.