''Diotíma'' (formerly ''Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World'') is an

online resource A web resource is any identifiable resource (digital, physical, or abstract) present on or connected to the World Wide Web.< ...

about "women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world." It is on the server of

Women's Classical Caucus The Women's Classical Caucus, Inc. (WCC) is an affiliate of the American Philological Association, the organization for North American scholars and teachers of Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture (known as "classicists"), Greek and Ro ...

, and named after

Diotima of Mantinea Diotima of Mantinea (; el, Διοτίμα; la, Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue ''Symposium'', possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and do ...

. It has been favorably reviewed as a resource in the field of

classical studies Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. Founded in 1995, it was the first online portal about women and gender in the ancient world. It was initially edited by Suzanne Bonefas and Ross Scaife; in 2019, Serena Witzke became the editor and moved it to a new

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