1. Nietzsche: Apollo & Dionysus
... all image-making energies and of prophecy. He was also associated with mental and moral illumination, or the functions that distinguish and clarify. Apollo sponsors similar artistic fields such as epic poetry and statuaries. Dionysus was the god of wine and vegetation and he taught humans how to cultivate grapevines and produce wine. As a result he is also connected with vitality ... of ways. Not to confuse their figurative marriage with another familial metaphor, but they are brothers as well since they both share in the constitution of poetry and music. The epic poem is an Apollinian ...
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