User contributions for Isokrates

15 November 2020

• 23:1823:18, 15 November 2020 diff hist +132 Universal (metaphysics) →Ness-ity-hood principle: Many years ago, someone butchered this section, leaving it virtually unintelligible; my edit here attempts to fix it
• 23:0723:07, 15 November 2020 diff hist +17 m Diogenes Laertius →Legacy and assessment: Cao 2010 said DL has still not gotten adequate *philological* attention, not that he hasn't gotten adequate "scholarly" attention

15 June 2020

• 22:1322:13, 15 June 2020 diff hist +2,399 Noble lie →Modern views: Added new subsection "Allan Bloom"
• 17:5717:57, 15 June 2020 diff hist +650 Talk:Noble lie New heading: Removed unscourced gloss on "gennaion pseudos"
• 17:5317:53, 15 June 2020 diff hist +298 Noble lie →Plato's Republic: Add Allan Bloom's explanation of the meaning of the ancient Greek term. See Talk.
• 17:5017:50, 15 June 2020 diff hist −53 Noble lie →Plato's Republic: Removed unsourced gloss on "gennaion pseudos". See Talk page.

12 March 2019

• 17:1717:17, 12 March 2019 diff hist +28 m John Burnet (classicist) →Life and work
• 17:1417:14, 12 March 2019 diff hist +328 John Burnet (classicist) →Life and work: added Slings' comment that Burnet's feeling for Platonic Greek "unlikely to be ever surpased"

28 January 2017

• 06:0906:09, 28 January 2017 diff hist +17 Animal Farm →Preface: added link to Crick's NYT article "How the essay came to be written"
• 06:0806:08, 28 January 2017 diff hist +193 Animal Farm →Notes: added ref name "Crick" for his NYT article "How the essay came to be written"

10 December 2016

• 16:5316:53, 10 December 2016 diff hist −807 Sophistic works of Antiphon there is already an article on this person; redirect to Antiphon (orator)

7 December 2016

• 02:1602:16, 7 December 2016 diff hist +243 Talk:Antiphon (orator) →Birth and Death Dates: same dates attributed to "both" Antiphon the Sophist and Antiphon of Rhamnus
• 02:0602:06, 7 December 2016 diff hist +170 Talk:Sophistic works of Antiphon added topic: There's already an article on this subject

10 November 2016

• 04:3704:37, 10 November 2016 diff hist +90 m Talk:Philosophy of futility →Nystrom Misquote: I forgot to add my signature to my recent edit here

9 November 2016

• 21:0321:03, 9 November 2016 diff hist +22 m Philosophy of futility added "emphasis in original" to the Nystrom citation
• 21:0021:00, 9 November 2016 diff hist +67 Philosophy of futility reworded the lead paragraph to conform more closely to Nystrom's argument in the cited passage
• 20:4320:43, 9 November 2016 diff hist +76 Philosophy of futility added full citation of Nystrom's Economics of Fashion book
• 20:4020:40, 9 November 2016 diff hist +409 Talk:Philosophy of futility added entry on Nystrom Misquote
• 20:3220:32, 9 November 2016 diff hist −26 Philosophy of futility Corrected misquote from Nystrom's Economics of Fashion; see Talk for explanation

30 August 2016

• 02:5302:53, 30 August 2016 diff hist +11 Gene Wilder →Film: added "also writer" to Young Frankenstein

27 August 2016

• 21:1021:10, 27 August 2016 diff hist +405 Talk:Phaenarete new topic: Burnet quote
• 20:5620:56, 27 August 2016 diff hist +245 Phaenarete Undid revision 653962662 by 38.124.159.2 (talk) 38.124.159.2 claims Burnet never said this; I have Burnet's "Socrates" article from the Encyclopaedia of Religion & Ethics where he says it
• 20:5120:51, 27 August 2016 diff hist −67 Lamprocles →See also: removed link to list of ppl whose parent committed suicide; Socrates wasn't a suicide; he was executed
• 20:5120:51, 27 August 2016 diff hist −67 Menexenus →See also: removed link to list of ppl whose parent committed suicide; Socrates wasn't a suicide; he was executed

8 May 2016

• 13:3413:34, 8 May 2016 diff hist −7 m Philosophy of futility removed erroneous reference "(1938)"
• 13:3113:31, 8 May 2016 diff hist +1 m Philosophy of futility minor change to last edit
• 13:2913:29, 8 May 2016 diff hist +29 Philosophy of futility added page number of Nystrom quotation
• 13:2813:28, 8 May 2016 diff hist +314 Philosophy of futility added refs (Ewen, McChesney, Nichols) citing Nystrom
• 13:2613:26, 8 May 2016 diff hist −137 Philosophy of futility removed Nietzsche citations; he died in 1900, so couldn't have cited Nystrom 1928

31 December 2015

• 01:1001:10, 31 December 2015 diff hist +539 Plato →Name: added refs to Sedley's claims about Aristocles being P's given name

9 October 2014

• 23:3023:30, 9 October 2014 diff hist +1,686 Talk:Antiphon (orator) →Fr. via Untersteiner
• 23:2723:27, 9 October 2014 diff hist +162 Antiphon (orator) →Antiphon the Sophist: Added in footnote Untersteiner's 1954 citation of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus #1364, in support of the egalitarian interpretation of DK 87B44b.
• 23:2523:25, 9 October 2014 diff hist −1,322 Antiphon (orator) →Antiphon the Sophist: Deleted 76.168.251.145's claims about the egalitarian interpretation of DK 87B44b being "unmistakable"; the claims were *not* based on "the actual text" but on an outdated *interpretation* of it; see Talk page for details.

10 July 2013

• 17:1117:11, 10 July 2013 diff hist −40 m John Burnet (classicist) →Major works: fixed broken links to Makiaea Press editions

9 July 2013

• 21:1821:18, 9 July 2013 diff hist +504 John Burnet (classicist) →Life and work: assistant to Lewis Campbell

3 July 2013

• 20:0820:08, 3 July 2013 diff hist +76 Aeschines of Sphettus →Aeschines and Socrates: Burnet's comparison of Aeschines w/Plato & Xenophon

14 May 2013

• 23:1123:11, 14 May 2013 diff hist +15 m Crito of Alopece →Life: added another ref (Crito 49a) for Crito's being "roughly the same age as" Socrates.

10 March 2013

• 20:0420:04, 10 March 2013 diff hist +70 Sophroniscus →Family Connections: added ref for date of death
• 20:0220:02, 10 March 2013 diff hist +70 Phaenarete added ref for the order of her 1st & 2nd marriages

9 March 2013

• 18:4618:46, 9 March 2013 diff hist −1,052 Phaenarete deleted the unsourced paragraph on Xenophon's Memorabilia 2.2.9; it's not clear it has anything to do with Phaenarete; see my note on Talk page
• 18:3918:39, 9 March 2013 diff hist +245 Phaenarete role of 'maia' was "performed by women of good family", plus ref
• 18:3518:35, 9 March 2013 diff hist −231 Phaenarete deleted Albert Schwegler quote, which explained why Socrates made the comparison: for which readers can easily visit the article on Plato's Theaetetus
• 18:3218:32, 9 March 2013 diff hist −190 Phaenarete ancient Greek word "maia", usuallly translated "midwife", plus ref to Theaetetus 149a
• 18:2718:27, 9 March 2013 diff hist +310 Phaenarete the name is "suggestive of good family connexions", plus ref

7 March 2013

• 22:4922:49, 7 March 2013 diff hist +419 Talk:I know that I know nothing →Original Greek
• 22:3422:34, 7 March 2013 diff hist +470 Sophroniscus →Occupation: the controversy over whether Sophroniscus or Socrates were stonemasons, complete refs added

4 March 2013

• 00:1700:17, 4 March 2013 diff hist +198 Sophroniscus →Occupation: OCD3 confirms that Socrates' education described at Crito 50de was "confined to the aristocratic strata"
• 00:0500:05, 4 March 2013 diff hist +437 Sophroniscus →Occupation: Socrates wouldn't have been trained in music if Sophroniscus had been a stonemason; plus ref

3 March 2013

• 23:4723:47, 3 March 2013 diff hist +2,746 Sophroniscus reverted to the article's 09:18, 3 May 2012 version; 68.47.163.140's wholesale deletion of the body of the article was unexplained & unjustified.

8 January 2013

• 16:3816:38, 8 January 2013 diff hist +183 Classical Greece added ref for the dating of "Classical" Greece