Aristophanes’s speech is interesting in the sense that is based on the myth to give explanation to the love among men, but somehow modifies the myth and find an razonable explanation. According to him, before there were two sexes there was only one ( androgynous) the gods were angry with those beings brcause they contradict his orders so he split them in half, now both beings needed each other to reproduce and survive, thus was born the love or as the Greeks: the instinct of Eros. Aristophanes also briefly explains homosexual tendencies in the greek world were not frowned upon and were common.