Talk:Rhadamanthus

Etymology

Should there be a section regarding the etymology of his name? I can source one theory (via Google Books), but I can't source the other. One theory I've read on the internet (but can't seem to recall seeing in any books) is that it's possibly (Greek) rhadamnos "branch" (or "wand", "rod") + anthos "blossom". The other (which I can source) is that it's from a title of Osiris, rho-t-amenti (among other transliterations), which means something like "king of Amenti", or "sun of the Amenti". Does anyone feel this is relevant enough to include in the article? If it is, I can include the links, and anyone that wants to add it, and cite it, can. --Heat (talk) 05:39, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

It's RA+DAEMON.

JC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.128.206.188 (talk) 13:47, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

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?

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).

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)

I made that addition Agamemnon suggested. Rhadamanthus is a major character in the novels, and the name was no doubt chosen to reflect the philosophy of the Silver-Greys, which itself is a major theme of the novel. The Silver-Greys pride themselves on discipline and conscientiousness, in their use of augmented reality and dependency on artificial intelligences. They feel themselves superior for that reason. 174.51.104.122 (talk) 20:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Oops, I made that comment before I'd logged in. It was me. Kchwe (talk) 20:10, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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)

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)

Headline text

There's a rule with transliterating Upsilon: If it's preceded by a vowel or if it's the first letter of a word, then it's a "U". If it's preceded by a consonant, than it's a "Y".Megasquid500 (talk) 23:45, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

So which should it be, then? Is "th" a vowel or a consonant in Greek? 20:20, 10 June 2013 (UTC)