The Greek Apollo

Carlos A. Segovia; Sofya Shaikut Segovia

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Chapter 3 The Greek Apollo

于Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538597_004

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Apollo presents three key features. First, he gathers in his gaze what is, what was, and what will be, thus bringing all things into unhiddenness and allowing them to be thought. Secondly, he rises himself above all things to put down any disrespect they may show one another regarding the equal right to be that all things have. Thirdly, in this way he does not only encourage mutual esteem, but reminds humans of their mortal condition and, if needed, forces them to accept it with his lethal arrows. These features are perceptible in the god’s oracular qualities (which are echoed in Parmenides’s poem), sculptural rendering (e.g., in the Temple of Zeus in Olympia), and diegetic role in Attic tragedy (in particular, in Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex). Furthermore, the first two features can be said to form the thematic background of the birth of philosophy and, more exactly, of Anaximander’s, Heraclitus’s, and Parmenides’s thought. Nevertheless, Apollo is not only a god whose epigeal, distant gaze – at the expense of which he could not be fair to everyone – contrasts with Dionysus’s hypogeal proximity. Nor is he just a political god who, accordingly, recommends measure against excess, and who, in like manner, allows things to take shape before they step back into the earth’s womb, to which Dionysus leads in turn. Each one in his own manner, Apollo and Dionysus encompass and shelter all things, hence protecting life’s rhythm in two different, proportionally inverted, ways: while Dionysus, out of compassion towards the living, affirms life’s continuity beneath the discreteness of its many forms, Apollo grants all things an equal right to shine forth into unhiddenness; yet he, too, does so – it can be argued – out of mercy for the living. Does Apollo’s compassion, though, derive from the fact that Zeus, i.e., his own father, is father to all and brings all things into being? Or is it an expression of the same earthly compassion that is distinctive of Dionysus? This is a crucial question. The fact that the basement of Apollo and Dionysus’s shared sanctuary at Delphi opened, under its floor, to the depths of the earth, over which the Pythia stood on her tripod to receive Apollo’s oracle, points to the latter option and underscores Apollo and Dionysus’s twinness.

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Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism

Rethinking the Earth–World Divide

丛编： Value Inquiry Book Series, 卷： 384and Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology, 卷： 384

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出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 10 Feb 2023

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