Sarah Burges Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Burges Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah Burges |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stroud, Gloucestershire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mousikê and Mysteries
In chapter 12 of Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche describes Socrates as the new Orpheus, who rises up against Dionysus and murders tragedy: ... in league with Socrates, Euripides dared to be the herald of a new kind of artistic creation. If this caused the older tragedy to perish, then aesthetic Socratism is the murderous principle; but in so far as the fight was directed against the Dionysiac nature of the older art, we may identify Socrates as the …
Orpheus' Erotic Mysteries
In his Ἔρωτɛς ἢ Kαλoί, Phanocles tells how Orpheus was decapitated by Thracian women because he ‘revealed’ homoerotic love and rejected women. Iconographic and literary evidence suggests that Orpheus is associated with homoeroticism and misogyny from the Classical period. Phanocles' poem also exploits Orpheus' ambivalent status: as founder of the Eleusinian mysteries, his authority was immense. But he was also seen as the guru of a countercultura…
Dionysos
Rescued from the womb of his mortal mother, the Theban Semele, after her incineration by her lover Zeus' thunderbolt, Dionysos completes his gestation in the thigh of his father.
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Dionysos
Rescued from the womb of his mortal mother, the Theban Semele, after her incineration by her lover Zeus' thunderbolt, Dionysos completes his gestation in the thigh of his father.
Orpheus' Erotic Mysteries
In his Ἔρωτɛς ἢ Kαλoί, Phanocles tells how Orpheus was decapitated by Thracian women because he ‘revealed’ homoerotic love and rejected women. Iconographic and literary evidence suggests that Orpheus is associated with homoeroticism and misogyny from the Classical period. Phanocles' poem also exploits Orpheus' ambivalent status: as founder of the Eleusinian mysteries, his authority was immense. But he was also seen as the guru of a countercultura…
Mousikê and Mysteries
In chapter 12 of Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche describes Socrates as the new Orpheus, who rises up against Dionysus and murders tragedy: ... in league with Socrates, Euripides dared to be the herald of a new kind of artistic creation. If this caused the older tragedy to perish, then aesthetic Socratism is the murderous principle; but in so far as the fight was directed against the Dionysiac nature of the older art, we may identify Socrates as the …
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