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Greek Mythology and Religion

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's first book, which explains the origin of Greek tragedy through the tension between the Apollonian principle of form, measure and dream and the Dionysian principle of ecstasy and intoxication. Rejected by classical scholars of its day, it has had an immense influence on modern ideas of Greek religion and art.

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