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grbs-7251	Green, Peter	Strepsiades, Socrates and the Abuses of Intellectualism	1979	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4735	242	62	Plato's immediate object in both cases was to discredit the 1 See A. W. H. Adkins, Clouds, Mysteries, Socrates and Plato, Antichthon 4 (1970) 13-24, where it is argued convincingly that Socrates employed initiation-language in philosophical discussion and further that Aristophanes deliberately held this practice'up to ridicule in the Clouds. W. K. C. Guthrie, A History cif Greek Philosophy III (Cambridge 1969) 374, suggests that Aristophanes may have described Socrates and his companions as a thiasos for comic effect and adding such picturesque details as the ban on revealing its 'mysteries' to any but the initiated disciples, but he does not cite either of these Platonic passages.	cache/grbs-7251.pdf	txt/grbs-7251.txt