Aristophanes, the comic poet, tells a myth. People were once round, with 4 hands, 4 feet and 2 faces, and came in 3 kinds: male, female, and both at once. They grew proud and attacked the gods, so Zeus cut each one in half.
From The Symposium by Plato
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