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‘Nietzche’s* first book, Die Geburt der Tragödie aus demGeiste der Musik (1872; The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music) … argued that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusion of what he termed Apollonian and Dionysian elements – the former representing measure, restraint, harmony, and the latter representing unbridled passion – and that Socratic rationalism and optimism spelled the death of Greek tragedy.’**

[Text extracted from ms diagram reproduced above:]

		C		(Scorpio, Ophiuchus,*** Hercules in the Sky Map)
			Apollo
		|	S~
G~	–	+	–	M~
	J~	|
	Dionysus
(Auriga**** in the Sky Map)		A~

*[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history…. Nietzsche's body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture, and science. His writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. (Wikipedia)]

**per E[nyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 24, 897 ‘Nietsche’

***[Serpent-holder: Doctor, aka Asclepius; discovered how to bring people back from the dead]

****[Charioteer, cf Dionysus (aka Bacchus) who is often shown driving a chariot (but/& cf T.VII)]

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