Robin Waterfield: 17 books
Dividing the Spoils:The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances,...
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
A History of Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, the "barbarian"...
by Robin Waterfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization—one with great resonance for American society today.
Socrates’ trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. In 399 BCE, the great philosopher stood before an Athenian jury on...
Taken at the Flood
The Roman Conquest of Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year...
Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis
The Story of Hypnosis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
In Hidden Depths, Robin Waterfield explores the fascinating world of hypnosis, tracing the history of this often misunderstood craft beginning with a passage in the book of Genesis, and continuing through his own personal experiences today. Waterfield uses the history and controversy surrounding the...
The Greek Myths
Stories of the Greek Gods and Heroes Vividly Retold
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic, and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy, to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus; from Icarus flying too close to the sun, to the superhuman feats of Heracles, Theseus, and the wily Odysseus,...
by Robin Waterfield
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary...
Olympia
The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus. Here, between the eighth century BCE and the fourth century CE, rival athletes competed for...
Prophet
The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Born in the mountains of northern Lebanon, Kahlil Girbran (1883-1931) - mystic, society philosopher, author of one of the most enduring works of the 20th century, The Prophet - immigrated to the United States in 1895. A gifted artist, who specialized in painting for some years before he turned to...
Nuvole a occidente
La conquista romana della Grecia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Robin Waterfield si prefigge lo scopo di raccontare a un pubblico di non specialisti un periodo
della storia romana tanto importante quanto poco noto al di fuori dell’ambito accademico, quello della progressiva affermazione dell’egemonia di Roma sulla Grecia tra 229 e 146 a.C.
by Kathryn Waterfield, Robin Waterfield, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Alexander the Great conquers the New York Timesbest-selling Who Was...? series!
When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case....
by Robin Waterfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 1998
Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information...
by Robin Waterfield, Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
2019 celebrates the 300th anniversary of the story of Robinson Crusoe - one of the most famous adventures of all time - with a brand new introduction from expert survivalist Bear Grylls.
After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from...
Rene Guenon And The Future Of The West
The Life and Writings of a 20th-Century Metaphysician
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Jean Borella taught philosophy at the University of Nancy until 1995. A Platonist by formation, he has been strongly influenced by Guénon and Eastern metaphysics. But his deepest inspiration derives from unceasing meditation on the Christian faith, which led him to undertake the present searching critique...
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