Robin Waterfield
, b. 1952
Robin Waterfield is a British author based in Greece. He studied classics at school and then at the University of Manchester. In 1974 he began a PhD on Plato's Philebus but left before finishing in order to take up a post at St Andrews University. After being made redundant from St Andrews he took up a copy-editing post at Penguin, who were then publishing his first book. He continued to work as a writer and copy-editor and, in the 2000s, began free-lance teaching academic writing skills. He has published a number of books on the ancient world, including Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (OUP, 2011), and he co-authored The Greek Myths: Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Foretold (2011, Sterling Publishing) with his wife, Kathryn Waterfield. Kathryn and Robin Waterfield have been based in Greece since 2005.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: October 12, 2019).
Bio prepared by Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk
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