Robin Waterfield was born in England in 1952 and received a traditional British private education, which at least instilled in him a 

lifelong love for the classics, especially Greek. This love blossomed at Manchester University (1971-4), where he took the classics prizes in 1972 and 1973, and later completed his PhD on Plato's Philebus at Cambridge.  After teaching assignments for one-year in the classics department at Newcastle University and three years at St. Andrews University, from 1982 to present Robin has translated from ancient Greek over twenty books on topics ranging from Plato to Xenophon to Euripides.  He has authored eight books, appeared in the expanded version of BBC2's 2010 production "Ancient Worlds," and is co-editor with Richard Alston of the Oxford University Press series "Ancient Warfare and Civilization." More at:  www.robinwaterfield.com. 

 

In 2005 he chose to leave Britain for sunnier climes. He now lives with his wife Kathryn and two cats in the rural far south of Greece, where as well as writing they have a small olive farm, producing organic olive oil.  After the olive harvests, he and Kathryn recently co-authored two books:  The Greek Myths:  Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold and the children's book, Who was Alexander the Great?