Originally Posted By: Dia

Incidentally, Dia is short for Diotima of Mantinea, an historical figure who taught Plato about the love of the soul. I guess she's really only a footnote in Neo-Platonism, but for a woman to make the history books at all back then means she had to have been a big deal.


erratum - She was a teacher of Socrates; Plato told the story. This has no relevance to anything whatsoever aside from my own geekiness. Historical errors do not become us. *grin*


The trouble with having an open mind is that people put things in it.

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