Comparing Dionysus, The God Of Festivals, And

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In ancient Greek, Apollo is the god of the sun who has been variously associate with restraint, light, knowledge, control, and charity. In Nietzsche’s point of view, Apollonian art represent plastic art such as painting, sculpture, and perhaps architecture. On the contrary, Dionysus is the god of festivals and chaos who has always appealing to emotions and instincts. Dionysian art always represent primordial essence of things, such as pleasure, excess, visceral, non-imagistic, and passion. Instead of seeing the Apollonian and the Dionysian in terms of the Greek gods, it might be better to see them as creative tendencies or powers that are essentially physiological. Because he claims that “These two different tendencies run parallel to each

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