Talk:Diotima of Mantinea

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I was looking at this site to gather more information and Diotima and notice a typo. It is not Plato whom diotima tutors but instead Socrates. Or at least that how I understand it, please comment.

Robotjon 02:52, 6 December 2006 (UTC)jon

You're absolutely correct. I just fixed it now. { Ben S. Nelson } _Lucidish 16:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pronunciation

Does anyone know how to pronounce this in English? The Greek is Διοτίμα, but I can't find whether the iota in the penult is long or short, and without that can't tell where the stress goes (dye-O-t^-m^ or dye-^-TEE-m^). If anyone knows which vowels were long in Latin, that would work just as well. kwami 00:49, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

The i is long, so that the standard English pronunciation is dye-oh-TYE-muh. However, most Classicists and philosophers revert to the less English version in your second suggestion (and your first suggestion is fairly widely spoken as well). Wareh 16:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)