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For Diotima, the most correct use of love of other human beings is to direct one's mind to love of wisdom, or philosophy. [1] From the Symposium Diotima's descriptor, "Mantinikê" (Mantinean) seems designed to draw attention to the word "mantis", which suggests an association with prophecy. She is further described as a foreigner (ξένη ...
Diotíma (formerly Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World) is an online resource about "women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world."
423 Diotima is one of the larger main-belt asteroids. It is classified as a C-type asteroid [2] and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on 7 December 1896, in Nice. In the late 1990s, a network of astronomers worldwide gathered lightcurve data that was ultimately used to derive the spin ...
Named after Diotima of Mantinea, an ancient Greek character in Plato’s “Symposium,” her label balances artisanal, sensual styles with mannish, sophisticated tailoring, referencing dance hall ...
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Diotima of Mantinea; L. Lastheneia of Mantinea; Lycomedes of Mantinea; N. Nicodorus of Mantineia This page was last edited on 29 July 2022, at 07:55 (UTC). Text is ...
Diotima of Mantinea, an ancient female philosopher and tutor of Socrates; Pen-name of Esme Wynn-Tyson, British author. Pseudonym of Susette Borkenstein Gontard in poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin; Pseudonym of Ermelinda Tuzzi, a protagonist in Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities
Susette Gontard (née Borkenstein; 1769 – 1802), dubbed Diotima by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin after Diotima of Mantinea, was the inspiration for Hölderlin's novel Hyperion, published in 1797–1799. She was the wife of Hölderlin's employer, the Frankfurt banker Jakob Friedrich Gontard. It is generally believed that the poet's ...