That woman is given the name “Diotima” – and in Symposium Socrates expounds her doctrine. Scholars have almost universally dismissed Diotima as a fiction. She is described in the dialogue as ...

When Socrates is done reciting, Menexenus marvels that such a speech could have been written by a woman. This is not the only occasion on which Socrates claims to have been schooled by a wise woman.

It appears that the widespread attribution to Socrates of the 'When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers' bit of wisdom only began after 2008, with the rise of quote-sharing ...

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: And the scale says: guilty. SIMON: But Illinois has abolished its death penalty. So, this time, no hemlock aperitif for Socrates ... death sentence to, quote, "a 70-year ...

It was from Socrates that Stoicism derived some of its most important ideas. The pioneers of cognitive-behavioral therapy frequently quote the famous saying of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus that ...