Socrates And Diotima: Sexuality, Religion, And The Nature Of Divinity (breaking Feminist Waves)
by Andrea Nye /
2015 / English / PDF
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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.
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.