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Meletus
Meletus ((ギリシア語:Μέλητος); fl. 4th–3rd century BCE) was an ancient Athenian Greek from the Pithus deme known for his prosecuting role in the trial and eventual execution of the philosopher Socrates.
==Life==
Little is known of Meletus' life beyond what is portrayed in the Socratic literature, particularly Plato's dialogues, where he is named as the chief accuser of Socrates. In the ''Euthyphro'', Plato describes Meletus as the youngest of the three prosecutors, having "a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown," and being unknown to Socrates prior to the prosecution.〔Plato, ''Euthyphro'', 2b〕 Meletus is also mentioned briefly in the ''Theaetetus''.
Given his awkwardness as an orator and his young age at the time of Socrates' death, many hold that he was not the real leader of the movement against the early philosopher, but rather was simply the spokesman for a group led by Anytus. 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 embarrassed the poets in his denunciation of the poets as depicted in such dialogues as the ''Gorgias''.
The later Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius dubiously reported that after the execution of Socrates "Athenians felt such remorse" that they executed Meletus and banished his associates from the city.〔Diogenes Laërtius, 2.43〕 He also argues that it was Antisthenes, the disciple of Socrates and founder of Cynicism, whom was largely thought responsible for the execution of Meletus.〔Diogenes Laërtius, 6.9〕
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