Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources / quote 6 of 8
Plato's third, androgynous sex
"At the beginning there were three sexes, not just the two sexes, the male and the female, as at present; there was a third kind that shared the characteristics of the other two, and whose name survives, even though the thing itself has disappeared. For at that time one was androgynous in form and shared its name with both the male and the female" Plato, Symposium