Robin Waterfield
Autor de The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics)
Sobre El Autor
Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator, living in southern Greece. In addition to more than twenty-five translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, including Dividing the Spoils and Taken at the Flood.
Obras de Robin Waterfield
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics) (2000) — Traductor — 357 copias
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: And Other Classic Stories in Verse (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection) (1996) 15 copias
Lives of the Attic Orators: Texts from Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius and the Suda (Clarendon Ancient History Series) (2015) — Traductor — 5 copias
Xenophon's Retreat by Waterfield, Robin published by Faber & Faber (2007) [Paperback] (2007) 1 copia
Who Was Alexander the Great? 1 copia
Theaetetus 1 copia
Essays 1 copia
The World Classics Physics 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics) (0002) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 429 copias
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Abridged - The Children's Golden Library) (2003) — Abridged by — 6 copias
Xenophon:: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry (Mnemosyne Supplements) (2012) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Waterfield, Robin Anthony Herschel
- Otros nombres
- Waterfield, Robin A. H.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-08-06
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Greece
- Educación
- Manchester University (Classics, 1974)
King's College, Cambridge (PhD, Greek philosophy) - Ocupaciones
- classical scholar
translator
editor
writer of children's fiction - Relaciones
- Waterfield, Kathryn (wife)
- Agente
- Hamilton, Bill (A. M. Heath literary agency)
- Biografía breve
- Classical scholar and writer of children's adventure gamebooks.
Miembros
Reseñas
Misery por Stephen King
Lecturas en ingles. Libro escolar
PRIMEROS FILOSOFOS
Robin Waterfield (1952) impartió la enseñanza en varias universidades inglesas. Ha traducido gran parte de los diálogos de Platón, de las tragedias de Eurípides, las Vidas paralelas de Plutarco y la Historia de Heródoto, entre otras obras clásicas del griego, y ha escrito una historia de Atenas y estudios sobre Platón y Sócrates.
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their...… (más)
Robin Waterfield (1952) impartió la enseñanza en varias universidades inglesas. Ha traducido gran parte de los diálogos de Platón, de las tragedias de Eurípides, las Vidas paralelas de Plutarco y la Historia de Heródoto, entre otras obras clásicas del griego, y ha escrito una historia de Atenas y estudios sobre Platón y Sócrates.
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their...… (más)
El autor toma como eje central la obra Anábasis de Jenofonte rodeándola de datos de forma magistral. La inmersión en el viaje es tal que crees estar visualizando infinidad de elementos de
la época antigua, tanto humanos como materiales. Un placer.
la época antigua, tanto humanos como materiales. Un placer.
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