In his " Symposium" , he wrote about a dinner party, at which Aristophanes, a comic playwright, regales the guests with the following story: humans were once creatures with four arms, four legs, and two faces.
在《会饮篇》中, 他描述了个晚餐派对,派对上,位喜剧演员,阿里斯托芬,讲了如下这个故事来娱乐在场的宾客:人类曾是拥有四个臂膀, 四条腿和两张脸的生物。