Apollonian AND Dionysian - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Two answers required. Camille Paglia draws on these concepts to portray Western culture as a struggle between a “Sky Cult” and an “Earth Cult” in her book Sexual Personae. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these two concepts. The Birth of Tragedy argues that the Greeks achieved the highest form of art via the dichotomy between these two concepts, which represent divine order on the one hand and drunken passion on the other.

ANSWER: Apollonian AND Dionysian

[10e] The Birth of Tragedy was written by this German philosopher, who declared that “God is dead” in The Gay Science.

ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche [or Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]

[10h] Nietzsche argued that contrary to the Enlightenment view of Greek tragedy as simple and noble, Greek tragedy is attempting to overcome pessimism, which is illustrated by the “wisdom” of this figure from Greek mythology.

ANSWER: Silenus

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Ottawa C	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	Ottawa B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	10	10	0	20
Claremont	Auxiliary CLU	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	Duke	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	NC State	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Warwick	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Durham	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Indiana	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
George Washington B	George Washington A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Kenyon B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	Boston College	10	10	0	20
Farrellmagnetism	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	10	0	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	MSU A and Friend	10	10	0	20
Cornell MATLAB	Cornell R	10	10	0	20
RIT	Syracuse+Rochester	10	10	10	30
TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	HCC	0	10	0	10
Texas A	TAMU	10	10	0	20
Texas C	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	WUSTL XYZ	10	10	0	20
SIUE	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WUSTL H2O	10	10	0	20