[LMB] OT: Apollonian/Dionysian (was: Slash)

[Scott Raun]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:53:50AM -0500, James Burbidge wrote:
<re: Dionysian vs. Appolonian>

> The two terms have become terms of art since Nietzsche's _The Birth of
> Tragedy_, where he uses the two in restricted and opposing senses
> (although I suspect that many fen picked up the terms, originally,
> from _Stranger in a Strange Land_).  Reference back to the rather
> messier classical world's cultus patterns is now to misunderstand, the
> terms, which now have a life of their own rooted in the Nietzschean
> usage.

The Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian was not
very helpful.

Term of art, IIRC, means that there's a specific definition not
necessarily associated with the common language usage.  Anyone have
either pointers to help those of us who don't know the terms of art,
or definitions / explanations that don't include vast amounts of
jargon?

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org