Few women's voices have survived from the antiquity period, but evidence shows that, especially in the area of religion, women were influential in Greek culture. Drawing on Socrates' Symposium , Nye advances this notion by not only exploring the original religious meaning of Diotima's teaching but also how that meaning has been lost throughout time.

Andrea Nye is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.

Introduction

PART I: LESSONS IN LOVE
1. Daemonic Eros
2. The Work of Love
3. Beauty Itself
4. The Spirit at the Center of the World

PART II: LESSONS LOST
5. The Highest One
6. Demonizing the Daemonic
7. Saint Augustine and Concupiscence of the Flesh
8. The Eclipse of Beauty
PART III: LESSONS REGAINED
9. Religion Without God
10. Social Virtue
11. The Problem of Evil
12. Surviving Death