[UA] Tha Bad Influence Archetype

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net> wrote:
> >Technically, Socrates was seen as a Bad Influence
> in
> >his time period (or so Plato tells us.)
> 
> You get a better idea of that by reading the other
> contemporaries who commented on Socrates.  Xenophon,
> Herodotus (very little about Socrates, actually, and
> not really relevant) and Aristophanes are the ones I
> recall.  Esp. the last, what with the "Clouds" and
> all.

Aristophanes probably deserves an archetype all his
own.  I've always thought "The Frogs" deserved a
screenplay, especially to contrast Hercules and Zena
with Dionysus dressed up like Hercules for a quest to
the underworld.

> 
> Probably Socrates was following some other
> archetype.  The Fool maybe ('I know that I know
> nothing') or the Sage (the wisest of all men). 
> Maybe the Philosopher, who sometimes is an
> intellectual rebel, like Socrates, or sometimes
> follows the established norms, like Anselm.
>

If I was really going to assign an archetype to
Socrates, I'd make him an Avatar of the Mentor.
 


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