The Dionysian and the Apollinian, in New Births, Ever Following and Mutually Enhancing

Nicha: The dionysian and the apollinian, in new births, ever following and mutually augmenting, one another controlled the hellenic genius. He says that out of the age of bronze, with its wars of the titans and its rigorous folk philosophy, the homeric world developed under the sway of the apollynian impulse to beauty. That this naive splendor was again overwhelmed by an influx of the dionycian. And against this new power, the Apollynian rose to the austere majesty of doric art in the dorsal view of the world. Nicha is going to tell us why in the following chapters.