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	The Three Accusers of Socrates
		Meletus, a poet, initiated the prosecution against Socrates, although most scholars consider him to a "puppet" of the best-known and most influential of the three accusers, Anytus.
		Plato in the Euthyphro describes Meletus, the youngest of the three accusers, as having "a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown." Plato wrote that, prior to the prosecution of Socrates, Meletus was "unknown" to him.
		Meletus' motivation in bringing charges against Socrates is a matter of considerable debate.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/accusers.html (929 words)

	Meletus - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Meletus was probably a poet by trade and likely a religious fanatic who was more concerned with allegations of impiety than with the charges of corruption that were lodged against Socrates.
		Some believe Meletus was motivated primarily by the reports that Socrates had embarassed the poets (In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates accuses poets and orators of flattery and says that they impress only women, children, and slaves).
		In the Euthyphro, Plato describes Meletus, the youngest of the three accusers, as having "a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown." Plato wrote that, prior to the prosecution of Socrates, Meletus was "unknown" to him.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Meletus (365 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Apology by Plato
		And you, Meletus, have sufficiently shown that you never had a thought about the young: your carelessness is seen in your not caring about matters spoken of in this very indictment.
		Friend Meletus, you think that you are accusing Anaxagoras; and you have but a bad opinion of the judges, if you fancy them ignorant to such a degree as not to know that those doctrines are found in the books of Anaxagoras the Clazomenian, who is full of them.
		For I cannot help thinking, O men of Athens, that Meletus is reckless and impudent, and that he has written this indictment in a spirit of mere wantonness and youthful bravado.
	classics.mit.edu /Plato/apology.html (6646 words)

	The Last Days of Socrates
		Meletus authored the written indictment against Socrates in 399 B.C.E. and, thus, is the principal prosecutor.
		Some evidence exists that Meletus, a poet by trade, may have been a bona fide religious fanatic who was far more concerned with the charge of impiety lodged against Socrates than with the corruption charge.
		In any event, Plato portrays him as a very serious and patriotic sort of fellow who probably sincerely believed the prosecution of Socrates was for the good of his city-state of Athens.
	socrates.clarke.edu /aplg0201.htm (165 words)

	SparkNotes: Euthyphro: 2a - 4e
		Socrates remarks what a promising young start this Meletus is making, weeding out the corruptors of the city's youth: Socrates himself believes that the excellence of the youth should be of utmost concern.
		Meletus (who is more prominent in The Apology) was the person primarily responsible for bringing Socrates to trial, and thus responsible for his subsequent death.
		We are supposed to infer, of course, that if Meletus were indeed acting for the benefit of the youth, his cause should be lauded, but in fact he is doing quite the contrary: he is trying to put an end to Socrates' influence.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/euthyphro/section2.rhtml (1206 words)

	Apology - Don Paarlberg - The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal
		According to both Plato and Xenophon, Meletus brought a lawsuit against Socrates, charging that he was an evil person who corrupted the youth, who did not believe in the gods that the state recognized, and who introduced other, new divinities of his own.
		Meletus is aggrieved on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the professional men and politicians.
		The first of his accusers is Meletus, who alleges that Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the youth, and of believing in gods of his own invention instead of those recognized by the state.
	www.examinedlifejournal.com /archives/vol1ed3/1_Apology.html (8168 words)

	Apolcomms2
		Meletus might also contend that Socrates' elenchic activities are a by-product of Socrates' impious beliefs or that Socrates has on occasion been known to ridicule the gods of the state in an attempt to demonstrate an interlocutor's ignorance.
		Meletus answers by saying that Socrates does not believe this and claims that according to Socrates, "the sun is a stone and the moon a mass of earth." (26d).
		Finally, it must be remembered that Meletus' claim that Socrates is a complete atheist is made in response to a request from Socrates for a clarification of the indictment, which accused Socrates of teaching the young to believe in new deities.
	krypton.mnsu.edu /~witt/apolcomms2.htm (3598 words)

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