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.
Dialogā „Simpozijs” viņš aprakstīja svinīgas vakariņas, kurās Aristofans, dramaturgs, komēdiju autors, iepriecina viesus ar šādu stāstu: senatnē cilvēki bijuši radījumi ar četrām rokām, četrām kājām un divām sejām.