User:Euthydemos

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I have recently encountered, and immediately fallen in love with, Wikipedia. I love the collaborative sense as well as the hypertextual feel of wiki. I made a number of very minor corrections before I had an account as 69.55.170.21

Topics of Interest include:

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My name stems from a brief appearance in the classical literature, courtesy of Xenophon:

"Kritias, or Critias, Athenean sophist and politician, was the leader of the "Thirty Tyrants" who after the Peloponnesian War ruled for a short while over Athens (404 BC). Xenophon relates [in Book IV of The Memorabilia] his passion for Euthydemos and how Socrates mocked him for it: "Socrates had observed that Critias loved Euthydemos and wanted to have his way with him. Therefore Socrates tried to argue him out of it, saying that it was degrading for a free man and ill became someone "beautiful in body and mind" to importune, moreover for nothing good, his beloved to whom he should be a shining example. It is very likely that by this rebuke, Socrates incurred the animosity of the mighty man, which was later nearly fatal to him.