Lastineia , Lasthenia was one of the female students of Plato. She was born in Mantinea , an ancient city in Arcadia, in the Peloponnese. She studied at the Academy of Plato , disguised as a man [1] . After the death of Plato, she continued her studies with Plato's nephew Speusippus [2] . They say that she was in connection with him [3] .
In the fragment of the papyrus from Oxyrinchus, a certain woman is mentioned who studied under Plato, Speusippus, and after that with Menedemos of Eritrea [4] . It says that "in her youth she was beautiful and full of laid-back grace." This woman is probably Lastenia or Axiothea of Flius .
Notes
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 46.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 2
- ↑ Athenaeus, vii. 279, xii. 546.
- ↑ POxy 3656