Diotima of Mantinea
Ancient Greek philosopher
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Updated 2026-05-29
Plato's Symposium credits her with founding Western philosophy's concept of love through her doctrine of Eros, though whether she was real or a literary device remains delightfully unresolved. Her ideas, filtered through Socrates, shaped how we think about desire itself.
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Diotima of Mantinea is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue Symposium, possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and doctrine of Eros as reported by the character of Socrates in the dialogue are the origin of the concept today known as love.
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