that become politicians and leaders because they love humans similar to themselves. He continues explaining that there is a danger that if humans don’t continue to keep order they will be split once again. Whoever opposes love is hateful to the gods, so we must embrace love. It is at this point that Aristophanes starts mentioning that homosexual love is what they should find if they are nice to the gods. It seems that this is what suited his company best. As I had stated earlier in the essay I liked this tale very much. The reasons are a little complicated but I will try to explain as simply as I can. First of all, I enjoy stories. I would like to make a future out of telling stories so I know how hard it is to come up with a new idea. Also if you are writing a story you must make it interesting to the people who will read it, to accomplish this it has to be something that the people can relate to. In the twentieth century, this story is quite original. It is also quite entertaining. Even though we can agree on this, how many people reading this are going to know the different myths about human creation in ancient Greece. How many of the people reading are going to know about Zeus and Apollo. How many of the people reading are going to know about sacrificing for religion. And the most important, how many people in the modern world are going to think that homosexuality is a good thing. Now let us go back in time to the year 385 B.C. Everyone knew his or her own culture. Everyone knew of Zeus. Everyone knew about all the old myths of creation. Then this guy named Plato comes out with a story and this story is unlike anything that’s been heard of before. But this story makes sense. It accounts for a lot of the things that can’t be explained in other ways. On top of that it teaches you what you should do in order to be better. I feel that this would have just turned their world on its side. It woul...
