Is There a Time When Ancient Greek Was More Musical?

In the next paragraph, he talks about a beethoven ande. Music flowing out of the dionycian is excessive, its contradictory. It produces a world of images that don't make sense in any rigorous apollonian way. And yet we see this tendency in ourselves, since time immemorial, to try and take a music and a author that apollinian story with word concepts on to the top of it.