A retelling of Friedrich Nietzsche · 1872
The Birth of Tragedy
“The young professor of classics Friedrich Nietzsche argues that Greek tragedy was born from the union of two opposed forces — the Apollonian dream of form and the Dionysian ecstasy of music — that it was killed by Socratic reason, and that it might be reborn in German music.”
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Contents3 episodes · ~31 min
- 1Apollo and Dionysus (Attempt at a Self-Criticism, Preface to Richard Wagner, Sections 1–10)Free
- 2The Death of Tragedy (Sections 11–15)🔒
- 3The Rebirth of Tragedy (Sections 16–25)🔒