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So, the point I'm suggesting is that many of Socrates' students
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and associates, including Plato himself,
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had some connection with this oligarchical government that had
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ruled Athens for a brief time.
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And, Socrates was himself not above suspicion.
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We often, don't we even today yes, we often judge teachers
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by their students, by the company they keep, yes, don't we?
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No one is above suspicion.
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Socrates himself had been a close associate of a man named Alcibiades,
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probably the most prominent Athenian in the generation after Pericles.
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Alcibiades was the man who engineered the disastrous Sicilian expedition
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and later ended his life as a defector going to Sparta.