Professor Armand D’Angour
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first heard Aug 2026
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the comic playwrights gave her a very bad rap, and they called her a prostitute,
They said that she was running a brothel.
uh and actually what uh was r revelatory to me was to discover that in a dialogue of Plato
Socrates says that he learned all he knows about love from a woman.
He doesn't call her Aspasia, but Plato leaves very heavy clues that this was the woman from whom Socrates learned about love, so that's in Plato's symposium.
But also if one goes further into that, one realizes that the account given by Socrates shows that Aspasia taught him about philosophy and about how to
create a philosophical method for which he's famous.
If that is all true and if the
Pseudonym used by Plato which is Diotima.
uh uh is in fact to be interpreted as she's a much more important person in history than simply uh the wife of Pericles.
There are two clues and uh they're actually there in plain sight.
Uh in some ways it's strange that it's to it's taken many centuries, possibly millennia, for a scholar to recognize them.
One of them is the name itself.
So Diotima in Greek means honored by Zeus.
Zeus
was the nickname given to Pericles because Zeus was a chief god and Pericles was this political commanding character.
And in the comic plays, Zeus is married to Hera, who is Aspagia.
So you have this sense that the two of them were at the top of the pyramids.
working together to govern Athens.
And that clue to the name, then, uh honored by Zeus is what the atima means, suggests that whoever was honored by Pericles was the person Plato is talking about.
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