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“This is an amazing book. Nietzsche was very young when he became a professor of Classics, and this is the first book he wrote…The Birth of Tragedy is a young Nietzsche still earnestly trying to be a sensible academic. Nietzsche argued that within culture, there are two opposing forces—the Dionysian force and the Apollonian force. On the one hand Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of chaos, passion, and what we’d call the darker aspects of human nature, as well as its most ambiguous and unpredictable aspects. On the other hand Apollo, who in ancient Greek mythology was the God of medicine and sunlight and prophecy, was quite rational. Both sides coexist in a person and in a society.” Read more...
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