The Birth of Tragedy
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pes
The German first edition
"Bacchus parmi les muses" by Bonaventura Genelli. This painting of Bacchus/Dionysus among the muses hung in Richard Wagner's drawing room in Tribschen and captured Nietzsche's attention on his stays there.
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
The Birth of Tragedy
…world. Originally educated as a philologist, Nietzsche discusses the history of the tragic form and introduces an intellectual dichotomy between the Dionysian and the Apollonian (very loosely: reality as disordered and undifferentiated by forms versus reality as ordered and differentiated by forms). Nietzsche claims life always…
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