Dionysian and Mob Mentality

Nietzsche characterizes Socrates as "the opponent of Dionysus".  But that characterization may be based on a nuance that Nietzsche overlooks, possibly because of his casting of Socrates as a "spectator".  Instead, beginning with the unarguable fact that Socrates was no mere spectator at his trial, why he is, instead, not the hero of a Tragedy that is more than a mere Aesthetic event, culminating in a death that is no mere Aesthetic event, is not considered by Nietzsche.  For sure, in the context, Socrates does attempt to promote detachment, but detachment from superstition and sophistry that constitute what can be summarized as Mob Mentality.  So, what is lacking in Nietzsche's study is a distinction between the Dionysian principle and Mob Mentality, if there is one, without which an inference from opposition to the latter, to opposition to the former, may be faulty, i. e. based on an equivocation.  Nietzsche's own later struggle with Mob Mentality suggests a possible revision of his earlier characterization of Socrates, but not one that he makes explicit.