Ruth Benedict
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Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
Benedict in 1937
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
Ruth Benedict
…cultures of the American Southwest and the emphasis on abandon in the Native American cultures of the Great Plains. She used the Nietzschean opposites of "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" as the stimulus for her thought about these Native American cultures. She describes how in ancient Greece the worshipers of Apollo emphasized order and…
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