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...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...
Professor Winspear became suspicious of the Socratic tradition when he noticed that Socrates was described differently by Aristophanes than by Plato. In his satiric play, The Clouds, Aristophanes pictured Socrates as a ragged leader of the rabble, a Sophist, "a thoroughly subversive influence." Pondering this contradiction, Professor Winspear next noticed that The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C., when Socrates was 47 and Plato a child of six. He concluded that between 423 and about 400 B.C., when Plato knew him, Socrates changed, and that young Plato, who had a high contempt for the rabble, chose to overlook 70-year...
Professor Winspear spent several years investigating that past by combing the works of other Greek writers. His conclusion: Socrates was a turncoat, a radical in youth, in old age a conservative who undermined Greek democracy. The professor's account...
...Collins, Jr., and Miss Daly, G. W. Daly and Miss. Scaden, A. O. Fink and Miss Wiley, G. L. Fischer and Miss Wavle, A. H. Gleason and Miss Anna Kirtland, C. M. Jones and Miss Hood, L. P., Jones and Miss Whitman, A. D. Kelso and Miss. Winspear, R. P. Nasona and Miss Johnes, R. H. Show and Miss Clark, R. F. Wiley and Miss Tuttle...
...Fosgate, Chairman, and Miss Steele, J. R. Campbell and Miss Breckman, L. Crosscup, J. H. F. Daily and Miss Daily, L. B. Geyer and Miss Morse, J. L. Glover and Miss Safford, L. Hall, A. D. Kelso and Miss Winspear, P. K. McElroy and Miss Simpson, L. MacDonald and Miss Willoughby, R. P. Nason and Miss Jones...