Socrates and Diotima: Sexuality, Religion, and the Nature of Divinity - Hardcover

by Andrea Nye (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Andrea Nye is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.