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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."
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
Łuszczewska posing as the ancient seer Diotima of Mantinea in a painting by Józef Simmler, 1855. Works. Lech (1859) Branki w jasyrze (1889) Panienka z okienka (1898)
Gary Corby is an Australian author of historical mysteries set in the world of Classical Greece.. His novels feature historical figures from the time as recurring characters, notably Socrates, Pericles, and the priestess Diotima of Mantinea.
Love itself is not wise or beautiful but is the desire for those things. Love is expressed through propagation and reproduction: either physical love or the exchanging and reproducing of ideas. The greatest knowledge, Diotima says, is knowledge of the "form of beauty", which humans must try to achieve.
After "The NeverEnding Story," Barrett continued to star in numerous films, including the title role of the robot/boy in "D.A.R.Y.L." and David in the Ron Howard film "Cocoon" and its sequel ...
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 ...