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He takes the experiences we have of Apolline art and Dionysiac art as his data, and asks how the world must be in order for these experiences to be vouchsafed us.
Is the Dionysiac a breath of fresh air? Is it simply yet another form of romanticism or does it define a new radicalism?
Intoxicated perhaps by his Dionysiac sincerity, Bataille nonetheless opened a path to the absolute for art.
This Furtwängler constant allows him proper equilibrium between the Dionysiac and the Apollinian.
The entrance to the ecstatic Dionysiac world in the Villa of the Mysteries is marked by Silenus playing a cithara at the edge of a rocky landscape.
These are found in a number of myths, notably that of Endymion, and on Dionysiac sarcophagi, where personifications of the seasons often also appear.
The tribes also passed honorary decrees, awarded honorific crowns, and sponsored dinners for all members at the time of the Dionysiac and Panathenaic festivals.
These scenes may have Dionysiac associations and bring to mind the amorous encounters between satyrs and maenads.
The Dionysiac festivals provided an opportunity for stepping outside of the daily routine.
The Dionysiac film, documentary of 26', is a scenario written and created by Natsuko Uchino and produced by the Centre Pompidou.
The Dionysiac is an ever-present possibility for any search for the spiritual after the death of the Judeo-Christian God.
And there is first-rate support from Chuck Iwuji as the Dionysiac Tydeus, Rakie Ayola as his vengeful accomplice and Bruce Myers as the androgynous Tiresias.
Dionysiac Mysteries were introduced on an even greater scale, so that the royal court was temporarily thrown into turmoil by the number of Bacchic ceremonies in which the king was considered to be a reincarnation of Dionysus.
The Dionysiac book published on the occasion of the exhibition is a publication conceived by Christine Macel with Christophe Brunquell and the artists.
Dionysiac goes hand in hand with Apollonian, the harmonious force.
The Dionysiac is also a response the artwork's loss of aura, offering the possibility of restoring to it a power stripped away by its desacralisation, the pagan possibility of convoking the sacred directly, without mediation.
Easter tables, used to calculate the correct date to celebrate Easter, were brought in from Rome where the Dionysiac Easter tables had been recently introduced.
Examples from Classical Literature
The performance of the seventh was exhilarating, with a darkbrowed solemn allegretto and with the strings excelling in a finale of dionysiac frenzy.
This was the second day of the third Dionysiac festival, called the Anthesteria.
It seemed as if a touch of music would have converted them into a Dionysiac chorus.
Hence, he adds, were derived the names of the demes in the Dionysiac phyle at Alexandria, viz.
In Greece dances were connected with many cults, among others with the Dionysiac ceremonies, out of which grew the Greek drama.
Beneath the southern wall of the Acropolis, near its extremity, was situated the Athenian or Dionysiac theatre.
But the established type of Dionysiac comedy gave him an instrument such as no public satirist has ever wielded.
Of such a nature, and connected in particular with the improvement of the arts of life, were the Dionysiac and Orphic arts.
A still more curious incident of the Dionysiac worship was the sacrifice of a booted calf, a calf with cothurns on its feet.
The satirical pen of Aristophanes has not spared the Dionysiac festivals.
The snakes would rear their heads out of the baskets, terrifying the male participants in Dionysiac rites and orgies.
They seem to have represented a reform of Dionysiac practice.
The answer is that both the heroes of Greek tragedies and the chorus function for the audience as a coherent Apolline forming or housing of Dionysiac energies.
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