Craig White's Literature Courses Critical Sources Notes to Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872, 1886) Chapter 2 Glossary to Birth of Tragedy

18 every artist = an ‘imitator’

Dream artist + ecstatic artist

Symbolic dream-image

19 ‘the imitation of nature’

Dreaming Greeks as Homer, Homer a dream Greek

Dionysiac Greek x Dionysian barbarians

Extravagant lack of sexual discipline

X venerable rules of family life

Doric Art = Apollo

20 reconciliation

Moment in Greek religion

Two adversaries

Festivals of world redemption and transfiguration

Break down principium individ

Supreme joy and scream of horror

21 feeling never before experienced struggling for expression

Destruction of veil of Maya, Oneness as source of form, nature

> a new world of symbols > body > dance