Nietzsche’s Ariadne: On Asses’s Ears in Botticelli/Dürer – and Poussin’s Bacchanale

In what follows I raise the question of Ariadne and Dionysus for Nietzsche, including the relative size of Ariadne’s ears, as Dionysus observes at the close of “Ariadne’s Lament” [Klage der Ariadne]. Nietzsche’s references to ears invoke not only Nietzsche’s “selective” concern with having the right...

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Main Author: Babich Babette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-08-01
Series:Open Philosophy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2022-0216