Robin Waterfield
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Robin Waterfield looks at the influence of the mother of Alexander the Great in the years following her son’s death. Published July 20 2011
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The popular image of Socrates as a man of immense moral integrity was largely the creation of his pupil Plato. If we examine evidence of his trial, argues Robin Waterfield, a different picture emerges, of a cunning politician opposed to Athenian democracy.
Published December 11 2008
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Robin Waterfield, author of a new book on the Greek soldier Xenophon, explains how he came to retrace the steps of the soldier’s famous journey to the Black Sea.
Published August 14 2006
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