Socrates and Diotima, 1st ed. 2015
Sexuality, Religion, and the Nature of Divinity
Breaking Feminist Waves Series

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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.

Introduction

PART I: LESSONS IN LOVE
1. Daemonic Eros
2. The Work of Love
3. Beauty Itself
4. The Spirit at the Center of the World

PART II: LESSONS LOST
5. The Highest One
6. Demonizing the Daemonic
7. Saint Augustine and Concupiscence of the Flesh
8. The Eclipse of Beauty
PART III: LESSONS REGAINED
9. Religion Without God
10. Social Virtue
11. The Problem of Evil
12. Surviving Death

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