Apollonian and Dionysian
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The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology. Its popularization is widely attribut
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who popularised the Apollonian and Dionysian dialectic
Belvedere Apollo Pio Clementino Inv 1015 n 3
Burdur Museum Dionysos and satyr from the western tabernacle 3131
Dionysus
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In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus is the god of wine-making, orchards, fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre. He was also known a
Apollonian and Dionysian
…The Apollonian and the Dionysian are philosophical and literary concepts represented by a duality between the figures of Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology. Its popularization is widely attributed to the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, though the terms had already…
Second-century Roman statue of Dionysus, after a Hellenistic model (ex-coll. Cardinal Richelieu, Louvre)
Dionysus extending a drinking cup (kantharos) (late sixth century BC)
Dionysus triumph, a mosaic from the House of Poseidon, Zeugma Mosaic Museum.
Golden naiskos with Dionysus, 2nd cent. BC.