The Birth of Dionysia: Out of the New Dithyramb by James Chester

The Birth of Dionysia: Out of the New Dithyramb

James Chester

446 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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In the nineteenth century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche solved a mystery that had baffled Western philosophers for more than two thousand years. Why did the ancient Greeks celebrate the destruction of magnificent individuals in their...

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