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• Diotima

  The priestess of Mantinea whom Socrates, in Plato's Symposium (201d–212a), names as his teacher "in the things of love" (ta erōtika) and whose doctrine of love he reports. Diotima delivers the dialogue's philosophical core: love as lack an…

• Eros (Platonic Love)

  Plato's account of love, developed in the Symposium through Diotima's teaching (reported by Socrates). Its central original move is to redefine love away from the beautiful beloved (the object) toward the needy lover (the desirer): love is…

• On Love (a fragment) Georg Simmel, 1984

  Author: Georg Simmel · Year: 1984 (translation; original German 1923, composition ca. 1907–1918) · Type: fragment

• Phaedrus Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue

• Symposium Plato, c. 4th c. BCE

  Author: Plato · Year: c. 4th c. BCE (trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, Hackett 1997) · Type: dialogue