Plato's The Symposium
Plato, Socrates' scribe, wrote a symposium which was essentially a dialogue about the nature of love and a mythical account of the union between a male and a female. Plato theorized that in the very beginning there was a primordial hermaphrodite, which was separated, by the gods, into a male part and a female part. He describes this separation as the reason behind the drive for men and women to fall in love, as the two parts desire to be reunited. In plato's opinion, it's not the union of a man and women, but rather a reunion.
Though I personally do not believe in this mythical theology, I find this sort of thing very interesting. Logically it does sort of make sense for a time when people believed in the greek and roman gods, and is a creative and refreshing spin on the reasons as to why men and women fall in love.
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