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n. - The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC.

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  • Kyrene accordingly made request, and those of Mantineia gave them the man of most repute among their citizens, whose name was
  • Making the point that there is a "very large pagan community in Delaware," Mantineia called the Delaware Republican's conflation of witchcraft and Satanism "disappointing."
  • But Diotima, the prophetess of Mantineia, whose sacred and superhuman character raises her above the ordinary proprieties of women, has taught Socrates far more than...
  • And now, taking my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia, a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge, who...
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