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In the Platonic dialogues are not taken a stand against the opponents and Plato (427-347 BC) treats them favorably and also even to the comic-poet Aristophanes that had contributed to the condemnation of Socrates with a ruthless criticism by portraying as from outside the world, suspended above the clouds and ridiculing the dialectic, the philosopher invents for him making the protagonist in an important discussion on love, the absurd and eccentric myth of human beings originated with spherical shape (four hands, four arms, two opposing faces on the head..) that the deity would then be divided into two parts to make him weaker. Aristophanes at the beginning of the discussion, after being treated from a "studied" hiccups, explains that since the split into two halves the men always aspire to be reunited with an unquenchable desire and once to become reunited tend to die of hunger and starvation for not wish to be separated.

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