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Socrates and Diotima : Sexuality, Religion, and the Nature of Divinity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Breaking Feminist Waves SeriesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137514042
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Socrates and DiotimaDDC classification:
  • 184
LOC classification:
  • PN3311-3503
Online resources: Summary: Few women's voices have survived from the antiquity period, but evidence shows that, especially in the area of religion, women were influential in Greek culture. Drawing on Socrates' Symposium, Nye advances this notion by not only exploring the original religious meaning of Diotima's teaching but also how that meaning has been lost throughout time.
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Few women's voices have survived from the antiquity period, but evidence shows that, especially in the area of religion, women were influential in Greek culture. Drawing on Socrates' Symposium, Nye advances this notion by not only exploring the original religious meaning of Diotima's teaching but also how that meaning has been lost throughout time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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