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Onomatopoeia has a long, honorable, and pleasurable history—from Aristophanes' brek-ke-kex ko-ax ko-ax to Kermit's ribbet, ribbet —from majestic lines in ancient epic poetry to simple, homey words like plop, splash , and murmur . In every language and time, the sound and look of some words have given clues to their meaning: their sound has suggested their sense.
The premiers of several major pieces by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes were performed here, and the Athens assembly also met here late in its history.
How curious, then, that nine out of ten readers of this work happen to forget this part of Aristophanes' myth.
Readers of Plato's Symposium , for example, may recall Aristophanes' absurd myth of creation: men and women were originally egglike creatures with eight limbs, and one head but two faces.
From then on, concludes Aristophanes, people sadly roamed the earth, looking for their lost halves.