{"id":22055,"date":"2013-09-11T07:02:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=22055"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:28:16","slug":"waterfield-robin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/waterfield-robin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterfield, Robin (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterfield.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22058\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterfield.png\" alt=\"waterfield\" width=\"176\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Robin<\/b><b> Waterfield (1952- ) <\/b>is a British classical scholar who now lives in Greece. He has translated the works of a number of the early Greek writers<sup>(b)<\/sup>, including Herodotus, Plutarch as well as Plato. In 2008 he produced a new translation<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">924<\/a>]<\/sup> of Plato\u2019s <i>Timaeus and Critias<\/i><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gregory who wrote the Introduction to Waterfield&#8217;s translation rejects the possible existence of Atlantis saying <i>\u201cThere is no sunken city in the place he indicates, nor is there any geological remnant (volcanoes, shallow muddy parts of the Atlantic), although there are shoals just beyond the Strait of Gibraltar.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/82012181\/Timaeus-and-Critias-New-Trans-by-Robin-Waterfield\u00a0(link broken)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Waterfield\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_Waterfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Waterfield (1952- ) is a British classical scholar who now lives in Greece. He has translated the works of a number of the early Greek writers(b), including Herodotus, Plutarch as well as Plato. In 2008 he produced a new translation[924] of Plato\u2019s Timaeus and Critias(a). Andrew Gregory who wrote the Introduction to Waterfield&#8217;s translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2549,2548,224],"class_list":["post-22055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-gregory","tag-robin-waterfield","tag-shoals-of-mud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63996,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22055\/revisions\/63996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}