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Diotima gives Socrates a genealogy of Love , stating that he is the son of "resource (poros) and poverty (penia)". In her view, love drives the individual to seek beauty, first earthly beauty, or beautiful bodies. Then as a lover grows in wisdom, the beauty that is sought is spiritual, or beautiful souls.
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."
Of particular importance is the speech of Socrates, who attributes to the prophet Diotima an idea of platonic love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the divine, an ascent known as the "Ladder of Love". For Diotima and Plato generally, the most correct use of love of human beings is to direct one's mind to love of divinity. Socrates ...
Diotima - first cover. Diotima (Greek: Διοτίμα) is a Greek cultural and social magazine ( ISSN 1790-4552) published in Tripoli of Arcadia, Greece.It is named after the ancient priestess Diotima, coming from Mantineia of Arcadia and mentioned by Plato in his Symposium as being the tutor of the young Socrates in the 'art of love'.
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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
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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 ...