{Dionysus and Apollo}[5th February 1991]

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‘The two basic Greek religious cults – one devoted to Apollo, the other to Dionysus – became the prototypes for the two aesthetic poles, classical and romantic, that have contended throughout Western cultural history. The Apollonians were characterised by objectivity of expression, simplicity, and clarity, and their favoured instrument was the kithara, a type of lyre. The Dionysians, on the other hand,* preferred the reed-blown aulos, and were identified by subjectivity, emotional abandon, and sensuality.**

*[It would be interesting to run a textual analysis across many examples this type of comparison and calculate what proportion of them were compared in the same order, ie order and then disorder]

**– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 24:551

[Extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘ROOTS IN ANTIQUITY’ ‘Ancient Greece’]

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