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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.
, Plato's Republic and Aristophanes' The Birds ). However, it is Sir Thomas More's speculative work of political science and sociology-- Utopia (from the Greek ou - `not' + topos -`place')--which became, generically, the impossibly perfect place.
From then on, concludes Aristophanes, people sadly roamed the earth, looking for their lost halves.
But in Aristophanes' description, only one type was cloven into male and female, the original hermaphrodites.
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.