In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima of Mantinea. She was a priestess who instructed none other than Socrates ...

But Plato, in Symposium (199b), reports him as saying that he learned “the truth about love” from a clever woman. That woman is given the name “Diotima” – and in Symposium Socrates ...

The god of love “seeks food among flowers” and therefore will not settle on body or soul “whose flower has faded away”. Socrates recounts a conversation with the philosopher Diotima who ...

She has studied fine art and French alongside philosophy—her brand name comes from the Greek classics, in which Diotima was a prophetess who taught Socrates about love. The designer has also ...

Socrates was famous for saying: “The only thing I know is that I don’t know.” But Plato, in Symposium (199b), reports him as saying that he learned “the truth about love” from a clever woman. That ...