PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diotima of Mantinea has received more than 366,443 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Diotima of Mantinea is the 195th most popular philosopher (up from 211th in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Greece (up from 125th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Greek Philosopher.

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

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  • 68.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 195 out of 1,267. Before her are Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Gassendi, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Baltasar Gracián, and Slavoj Žižek. After her are Solomon ibn Gabirol, Melissus of Samos, Muhammad Abduh, Adam Weishaupt, John Scotus Eriugena, and Hasan al-Basri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 450 BC, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 3. Before her are Alcibiades, and Polykleitos. After her are Malachi, Amyntas III of Macedon, Cleon, Nectanebo I, Pelopidas, Archidamus II, Amyrtaeus, Theramenes, and Diagoras of Melos. Among people deceased in 300 BC, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 2. Before her is Lysippos. After her are Wang Jian, Aristoxenus, Berossus, Nearchus, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Eudemus of Rhodes, Menaechmus, Aristo of Chios, Hegesias of Cyrene, and Callippus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 103 out of 1,024. Before her are Aristides (-550), Saint Titus (13), Philomena (291), Agrippina the Elder (-14), Nestor (null), and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882). After her are John V Palaiologos (1332), Melissus of Samos (-470), Eleftherios Venizelos (1864), Melina Mercouri (1920), Necho II (-625), and Arion (-700).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Diotima of Mantinea ranks 16. Before her are Theophrastus (-371), Antisthenes (-445), Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), and Hippias (-443). After her are Melissus of Samos (-470), Cratylus (-500), Prodicus (-460), Chilon of Sparta (-600), Apollodorus of Athens (-180), and Andronicus of Rhodes (-100).

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