The passage that I found most interesting in The Symposium is related to the speech of Aristophanes, which defines the changing nature of love as a mythical and biological definition in the human condition: “First you must learn what human nature is in the beginning and what has happened to it since, because long ago our nature was not what it is now” (Plato p.25, 189d). In this passage, Aristophanes is defining the mythical story of the differences between human beings in the biology of sex, which defined the three sexes as two-fold male, the two-fold female, and the male-female. However, Zeus cast a lighting bolt and vided these beings into the duality of male and female sexes. This is a fascinating account of the mythical argument brought
