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Diotima and the Priestess Who Taught Socrates About Love
When Socrates talks about love in Plato's Symposium, he credits everything he knows to a woman from Mantinea named Diotima. She is the only female philosopher in Plato's dialogues who speaks on her own authority, and her teachings frame the famous Ladder of Love that dominates Western ideas about eros and beauty. But who was Diotima? Was she a real historical figure, a fictional invention, or a priestess whose religious role as a mantis gave her unique insight into the daimonic nature of love? In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Diotima's place in the Symposium, her concept…
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