Kyrene accordingly made request, and those of Mantineia gave them the man of most repute among their citizens, whose name was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Bloat] Reference

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 this about the art and mystery of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symposium] Reference

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 in the days of old, when the Athenians offered sacrifice before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years.    From Wordnik.com.  [thispain Diary Entry] Reference

For instance, beginning with their victory over the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, the Thebans enjoyed substantial hegemony for nearly a decade, only to be undone by overextension: a rematch against the Spartans at Mantineia weakened both sides, ultimately leaving Philip II of Macedon to clean up the mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [dustbury.com » 371] Reference

Persian in this place: — of the Spartans three hundred hoplites; of the men of Tegea and Mantineia a thousand, half from each place, from Orchomenos in Arcadia a hundred and twenty, and from the rest of Arcadia a thousand, — of the Arcadians so many; from Corinth four hundred, from Phlius two hundred, and of the men of Mykene eighty: these were they who came from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

We are asking the same question that the priestess Diotima of Mantineia posed 2,500 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek News] Reference

But Diotima, the prophetess of Mantineia, whose sacred and superhuman character raises her above the ordinary proprieties of women, has taught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

The men of Kyrene accordingly made request, and those of Mantineia gave them the man of most repute among their citizens, whose name was Demonax.    From Wordnik.com.  [The history of Herodotus — Volume 1] Reference

We hear of him at Ænus in Thrace, in Pallene, at Æneia in the Thermaic Gulf, in Delos, at Orchomenus and Mantineia in Arcadia, in the islands of Cythera and Zacynthus, in Leucas and Ambracia, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01] Reference

The principal motives of the supporters of Sparta were their hostility to Thebes, and their desire not to break with the Spartans, whom Athens had assisted at Mantineia in 362 against the Thebans and Megalopolitans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1] Reference

It is such an alternation as this, ceaseless, rhythmic, which constitutes the upward life of the soul: that life of which the wise woman of Mantineia told Socrates that it might be learned through faithful and strenuous search for ever widening kinds of beauty, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference

In the description of Love which Socrates professes to quote from the wise woman of Mantineia, there is the very height of the Platonic philosophy, -- the gradual sublimation of human passion to the recognition of all noble forms and ideas, and at last to the vision of the Divine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chief End of Man] Reference

And now, taking my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia (compare 1 Alcibiades), a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge, who in the days of old, when the Athenians offered sacrifice before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

Diodorus, fought among the Athenian horsemen at the cavalry combat which preceded the battle of Mantineia, where the former was slain, after manifesting distinguished bravery; while his grandson Xenophon became in the next generation the subject of a pleading before the Athenian court of justice, composed by the orator Deinarchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Great Retreats of History] Reference

Then Battos the son of Arkesilaos succeeded to the kingdom, who was lame and not sound in his feet: and the Kyrenians with a view to the misfortune which had befallen them sent men to Delphi to ask what form of rule they should adopt, in order to live in the best way possible; and the Pythian prophetess bade them take to themselves a reformer of their State from Mantineia of the Arcadians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The history of Herodotus — Volume 1] Reference

Kyllene, beside the tomb of Aipytos, where are warriors that fight hand to hand; and of them that dwelt in Pheneos and Orchomenos abounding in flocks, and Rhipe and Stratie and windy Enispe, and that possessed Tegea and lovely Mantineia, and possessed Stymphelos and dwelt in Parhasie, of these was Ankaios 'son lord Agapenor leader, even of sixty ships; and in each ship embarked many Arkadian warriors skilled in fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

"And now, taking my leave of you, I will rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia, a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greek View of Life] Reference

This, my dear Socrates, 'said the stranger of Mantineia,' is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths, whose presence now entrances you; and you and many a one would be content to live seeing them only and conversing with them without meat or drink, if that were possible -- you only want to look at them and to be with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

This, my dear Socrates,’ said the stranger of Mantineia, ‘is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths, whose presence now entrances you; and you and many a one would be content to live seeing them only and conversing with them without meat or drink, if that were possible — you only want to look at them and to be with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symposium] Reference

Spartans at Mantineia in 362.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2] Reference

To Mantineia, with its unbaked walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold] Reference

Mautineia (Higher Harmonies I) Mantineia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference

Mantineia, battle of, i.; ii. oligarchy in, ii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2] Reference

I. "To use the beauties of earth as steps along which he mounts upwards, going from one to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair actions, and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is; this, my dear Socrates," said the prophetess of Mantineia, "is that life, above all others, which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference

This, my dear Socrates, 'said the stranger of Mantineia,' is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute: a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths, whose presence now entrances you; and you and many a one would be content to live seeing them only and conversing with them without meat or drink, if that were possible, -- you only want to look at them and to be with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greek View of Life] Reference

And thus I am going to try to reinstate in others 'belief, as it is fully reinstated in my own, the theory of higher æsthetic harmonies, which the prophetess of Mantineia taught Socrates: to wit, that through the contemplation of true beauty we may attain, by the constant purification -- or, in more modern language, the constant selecting and enriching -- of our nature, to that which transcends material beauty; because the desire for harmony begets the habit of harmony, and the habit thereof begets its imperative desire, and thus on in never-ending alternation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference

The following typographical errors were corrected: page 6, “gridle” changed to “girdle” page 8, “seashore” changed to “sea-shore” page 23, “earthern” changed to “earthen” page 24, “Thacian” changed to “Thasian” page 29, “good humoredly” changed to “good-humouredly” page 31, “Mantineia” changed to “Mantinea” page 32, “honor” changed to “honour” page 63, “waterpots” changed to “water-pots” page 65, “humorous” changed to “humourous” page 90, “Nausicäa” changed to “Nausicaä” page 92, “pentaconters” changed to “penteconters” page 93, missing quote added before “We can say” page 95, “he” changed to “be” page 101, comma changed to period after “house was out” page 107, “fish-monger” changed to “fishmonger” page 117, added italics to “Ai!” page 133, “Baylonish” changed to “Babylonish” page 145, “Neverthless” changed to “Nevertheless” page 146, “haircloth” changed to “hair-cloth” page 157, “sailcloth” changed to “sail-cloth” page 173, semicolon added after “beautiful” page 176, single quote cha.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference