Dionysian

Himerion citizens to avenge the death of his grandfather. He had gained control of almost 1/3 of Sicily in less than three months and returned home to Carthage. In 406 B.C. he would return and sack Akragas (Agrigento). Dionysius I began the reign of Dionysian rule as he took control of Syracuse in 405 B.C. Carthage ruled over almost all of

saxophone jumps in to excite the whole song. The beat is soft enough to induce a deep thought and when the chorus hits, you do not get the usual sense of excitement but rather one of contempt delight. Lastly, the artist is another thing that triggers a Dionysian response for me, the reason being that Bradley looks just like my grandfather that passed about a year ago. Every time I see Bradley, I think of my grandfather and all of the time I spent with him, not to mention that the author’s last name matches

time who shall clearly recognize your Incarnation!" He shows his obvious awareness of Mozart's posterity and his own "mediocrity." We can see Salieri and Mozart in the light of Nietzsche's opposing struggle of the Apollian and Dionysian personalities. Mozart embodies the Dionysian elements of a

Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, theater, fertility and ritual madness, and was worshipped for centuries, but how he was depicted varied greatly throughout time. The “Dionysus Cup,” (fig. 2) a black-figure painted clay pot, was created by the Athenian artist Exekias between 540 and 530 BCE, at the end of the Archaic period. The “Free-standing Dionysos with a panther,” (fig. 1) a marble statuette, was sculpted by an unknown artist between 150 BCE and 100 CE, at the end of the Hellenistic period

women displayed during the exhibition. They might compare in positive terms the difference between and preferences they might see. In addition, the hero who is on display (in this case, Lybeaus Desconus) would provide a sense of unity between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Instead of the Apollonian figure emerging from the primordial oneness of existence where opposites would coexist, Lybeaus Desconus systematically slaughters the creatures that represent wildness and restricts notions of beauty

Otherness in Euripides'Bacchae and Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides   Both Euripides and Wole Soyinka are focused on a fundamental ethical imperative in their plays: welcome the stranger into your midst. Acceptance of Dionysus as a god, as "an essence that will not exclude or be excluded", is stressed (Soyinka 1). Pentheus is punished severely for excluding, for refusing to acknowledge or submit to, Dionysus' divine authority. In order to carve out a place for himself (in the pantheon, in

These extraordinary beings (led by their Dionysian tendencies) must rebel against the restraint of common Apollonians. After some sort of a revolution occurs, the radical Dionysian and the conservative Apollonian principles will synthesize into a middle ground. At the end of Raskolnikov's conversation with Porfiry he comments that this revolutionary cycle will

In the Analects, Confucius puts forward a concept that strikingly resembles Friedrich Nietzsche’s Overman as described in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Known as the gentleman, or junzi, this person stands out among the rest of humanity. Through virtue, or what Nietzsche might call will to power, the junzi improves himself to have a superior moral standing, as well as achieve peace. However, the gentleman is also able to bring civilization and sagehood to others. If a gentleman travels to wild barbarian

He saw the cult as a religion of pure instinct and selfishness that he believes society must return to. He writes, “For it is only in the Dionysian mysteries, in the psychology of the Dionysian condition, that the fundamental fact of the Hellenic instinct expresses itself - its will to life.”. This will is something that Nietzsche feels Socrates through Plato perverted, ancient Greece was a place that encouraged

than Odysseus because of his flawed nature, Odysseus and Oprah are both brazen leaders because of their ability to use words and actions to empower the people around them. Odysseus is different from Oprah because he handles situations with his dionysian