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Diotima of Mantinea

450 BC - 300 BC

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Diotima of Mantinea (; Greek: Διοτίμα; Latin: Diotīma) 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 Platonic love. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Diotima of Mantinea is the 199th most popular philosopher (down from 195th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Greece (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Diotima of Mantinea is most famous for her speech on love in Plato's Symposium.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 199 out of 1,267. Before her are Apollonius of Tyana, Ernest Renan, Nicolas Malebranche, John Rawls, Max Horkheimer, and Christian Wolff. After her are Slavoj Žižek, Karl Kautsky, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Diogenes of Apollonia, Jean-François Lyotard, and Rudolf Carnap.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 450 BC, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 4. Before her are Alcibiades, Polykleitos, and Malachi. After her are Cleon, Amyntas III of Macedon, Nectanebo I, Amyrtaeus, Archidamus II, Pelopidas, Theramenes, and Diagoras of Melos. Among people deceased in 300 BC, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 2. Before her is Lysippos. After her are Hipparchia of Maroneia, Berossus, Nearchus, Aristoxenus, Wang Jian, Xanthippus of Carthage, Eudemus of Rhodes, Hegesias of Cyrene, Menaechmus, and Callippus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 100 out of 1,024. Before her are Hephaestion (-356), Philip III of Macedon (-359), Alexander of Greece (1893), John III Doukas Vatatzes (1192), Lysimachus (-361), and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789). After her are John V Palaiologos (1332), Cimon (-510), Myron (-500), Theo Angelopoulos (1935), Antiochus V Eupator (-173), and Admetus (null).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 18. Before her are Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), Melissus of Samos (-470), and Hippias (-443). After her are Prodicus (-460), Cratylus (-500), Pherecydes of Syros (-580), Euclid of Megara (-435), Panaetius (-185), and Andronicus of Rhodes (-100).

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