Who is Aristophanes from Symposium and what is their importance?

Aristophanes was a playwright and poet. In his work, Clouds, Aristophanes makes fun of Socrates by showing him spending his time daydreaming. His also gives an iconic speech about love, which is actually a joke intended at the expense of all male couples, like Agathon and Pausanius. Aristophanes says that love is what happens when the two former halves of the double-headed creature get together again. This is why such male-male or male-female pairs, according to Aristophanes, want to stay together, inseparable for their whole lives. Their love seems to have little intellectual aspect at all, since love is a purely physical force in Aristophanes' story.