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Mantineia

noun
1.
The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC.  Synonym: Mantinea.





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"Mantineia" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Mantineia in Arcadia, Diotima by name, once explained to the philosopher Socrates that love, and impulse, and bent of all kinds, is, in fact, nothing else but the desire in men that good should forever be present to them. This desire for good, Diotima assured Socrates, is our ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... deals at once humorously and profoundly with the subject of Love, human and divine, and its relations to Art and Philosophy, the whole consummated in a speech related by Socrates as having been spoken to him by Diotima, a wise woman of Mantineia. From this speech an extract as translated by Professor Jowett may be quoted here. It marks the transition point from the merely playful and critical to the relatively serious and dogmatic stage in the mind ...
— A Short History of Greek Philosophy • John Marshall


Words linked to "Mantineia" :   Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas, pitched battle


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