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A kind of carnival, a carnivale, a Mardi Gras,
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where a festival is going on.
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What's more, a new goddess is being introduced
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into the pantheon of deities.
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This seems to suggest that-- referring back to the Apology,
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that it is not Socrates, but the Athenians who innovate,
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who create and introduce new deities.
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Socrates remarks that the Thracians, the display of the Thracians,
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put on a good show, showing that his own perspective is
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not simply bound by that of a city.
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It suggests, from the beginning, a kind of loftiness and impartiality
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of perspective characteristic of the philosopher,