Diotima
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Diotima plays an important role in Plato's Symposium Plato's Symposium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_Plato).
In it, Socrates says that Diotima was a Mantinean seer and priestess that had, in his youth, taught him "the philosophy of love". He said that she had also succeeded in convincing the gods to postpone the pestilence that besieged Athens by ten years.
Although many of the figures in Plato's writings are known to be historical figures, there is no compelling reason to believe that any of them are fictitious except for Diotima. There are no other references to her outside of this dialog.
Source: Navia, Luis E., Socrates, the man and his philosophy, pp. 30, 171. University Press of America ISBN 0-8191-4854-7.
