According to an ancient Greek philosopher, humans were originally creatures with two heads, eight limbs and joined together at the back. Zeus, scared of what they might do, decided to cut them in half with his lightning, dividing them in the middle in a vertical direction. Thus humans as we know them today were born.Thus was born love and the instinct to search for this hypothetical half of ours.

For the Greeks, love as we know it is divided into three types.