Robin Waterfield’s previous book for Faber was Xenophon’s Retreat. In 2005 he published a new translation of Xenophon’s Anabasis as Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus. He is also the author of Athens: A History and has translated works by Euripides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as other works by Xenophon.