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Diotima of Mantinea is a female philosopher featured in Plato's Symposium who, Socrates says, taught him the "philosophy of love." The name Diotima means "honored by Zeus."

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= Polish writer Jadwiga Łuszczewska (1834–1908) used the pen name Diotima (Deotyma).
- German poet Friedrich Hölderlin used the pen name Diotima as a moniker for Susette Borkenstein Gontard, who inspired him to write Hyperion. In this work, the fictitious first-person author Hyperion addresses letters to his friends Bellarmin and Diotima.
- Italian composer Luigi Nono used her name as part of the title of his string quartet: Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima, including quotations from Hölderlin's letters to Diotima from Hyperion in the work.
- Diotima is one of the main female protagonists in The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- Diotima was the name of Leni Riefenstahl's character in the silent film, Der Heilige Berg.
- Diotima appears in short poem "Irpen'" by Boris Pasternak.
- Diotima of Mantinea is one of the two main characters in The Pericles Commission and The Ionia Sanction by Gary Corby.
- Diotima is the name of New York-based experimental black metal band Krallice's third album.
- Asteroid 423 Diotima is named after her.