Talk:Rhadamanthus

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Contents 1 Comments 2 Mix-up 3 Small Addition 4 Appolodoros 5 Rhadamanthine

[edit] Comments

ref. "Dante makes Rhadamanthus one of the judges of the damned in the Inferno section of Divine Comedy. "Rhadamanthine" has since come to describe any just but inflexible judgment."

I have downloaded and searched the Divine Comedy from Gutenberg. I found no reference to Rhadamanthus, but his brother Minos appears several times. Could this be mixed-up?

[edit] Mix-up

I do not think this is mix-up between Rhadamanthus and Minos, but Dante and Virgil. In Virgil's "The Aeneid" Book 6, line 566 Rhadamanthus is refered to as a punisher in Tartarus. Here it is also stated that he "holds sway with his unbending laws..." (567).

[edit] Small Addition

Yeah I hope I'm putting this in the right place and in the proper format. Anyway, Rhadamanthus is also the name of the Sophotech for the Silver-Grey manorials in John C. Wright's Golden Age Trilogy. Would Anyone be terribly put out if I made that small addition with the appropriate links to articles within the wiki? Also that would be considered a minor or major change? Agamemnon

Is this thing, and/or its name, a meaningful plot point in the work you mentioned? If so, add it as another bullet point in Other Uses; if not, it's just as well to skip it. For the other question, ANY change of the content of an article is a "major" change. The minor change tick mark is basically meant for correcting spelling, grammar, or wikicodes. --Nentuaby 03:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Appolodoros

The pederasty story, is that from A. of Athens, or from Pseudo-A? Does anyone know the title of the source? Jonathan Tweet 16:26, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rhadamanthine

Is there a reason this appears twice in the article? It appears in "Greek and Roman accounts", and then again in "Other Uses," in the first instance asserting it's an adjective, the second a noun, and with slightly different definitions. Since the first instance seems more in accord with dictionaries, I took it out of "Greek and Roman Accounts", and updated the "Other Uses" version. AstrolobeJones 02:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Also linked it to Wikitionary since it's got an entry there, and moved it to the top of 'other uses' since it seemed more important than the Kuiper belt, and certainly belonged above Diablo II.AstrolobeJones 02:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)