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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Grade Level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
ISBN: 0486285154
Page Count: 96
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational. "A work of profound imaginative insight, which left the scholarship of a generation toiling in the rear." — British classicist F. M. Cornford.

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