Birth of Tragedy, by Nietzsche, was handed out today in class. Bacchae can be found in your required textbook Greek Tragedies Volume 3.
1. How does Nietzsche describe the concepts of Apollonian and Dionysian?
2. How does this distinction reflect two distinct patterns of human existence?
3. What does Nietzsche have to say about Homer and the Homeric?
4. In mortal form, why does Dionysus come to Thebes in the first place? What does he want?
5. Why must Agave suffer?
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