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Hi, I don't know exactly what is meant by "Greek people stubs", but it seems to me it refers to modern Greeks only. In any case, marking the article as a Greek biographical stub shows a modern Greek flag, and it is very strange to see a modern Greek flag in an article about Theaetetus.
[edit] Date of Death
The now traditional date of Theaetetus' death, 369 BCE, has been recently questioned by Debra Nails in her The People of Plato (2002), pp. 276-277. Nails argues convincingly that the evidence suggests an earlier date, 391 BCE. The later date has been preferred mostly because it was not thought likely that Theaetetus' mathematical achievements could have been accomplished in such little time, had he died in 391. But, in addition to the points Nails raises, we must remember that well-to-do Athenian youths of this time were precocious and Plato makes makes a great deal of the lad's extraordinary acumen. Isokrates 12:46, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
