071 Love, Sex, and Prostitution
The History of Ancient Greece
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Aristophanes's Theology of Love
Zeus wanted to obliterate them with thunderbolts, but the other gods persuaded him not to get rid of them. Zeus then sent Apollo to split them in half and he twisted their heads around so that they could see their wounds for their own presumptuousness. So ever since then, human beings spend their life looking for their other half because they were really trying to recover their primal nature. Aristophanes ends his speech on a cautionary note. He says that men should fear the gods and not neglect to worship them.
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