Attic Tragedy Nietzsche

It is nietzsche s dithyrambic drama thus spoke zarathustra that provides the apprehension he writes about in the very first sentence of the birth of tragedy.

Attic tragedy nietzsche. While he has not yet reached his main topic attic tragedy he builds closer to it with his discussion of the different layers of appearance and how they are necessary for man in order to persevere in a world of suffering. The birth of tragedy. The attic tragedy was born from three separate inanimate ideas that rattled around inside me for two or three years before striking together and sparking a story. Nietzsche uses this section to refine his conception of the epiphany that is reached when the apollonian and the dionysian come together in one art form.

The first was the setting the second was a dream and the third was a rather cheap pun stolen from nietzsche s first book. Firstly the dionysian the passion that overwhelms the character and the apollonian the purely pictorial imagery of the theatrical spectacle. We have emphasized apollo for so long that it is very difficult for us to embrace dionysus especially if we have been brought up in christianity truly an apollonian religion if there ever was one. In order to justify his relentless quest to find dionysus at the heart of attic tragedy nietzsche writes that we must not trust what we find on the surface of sophoclean and aeschylean dialogue.

Nietzsche believed that attic tragedy was the synthesis of these forces. In the birth of tragedy nietzsche expounds on the origins of greek tragedy and its relevance to the german culture of its time. Euripides founded new attic comedy and was nietzsche claims the first to bring the spectator onto the stage.