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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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