Hi, this is Seth and you're about to hear a 15 minute preview of the after show for

episode 119 on Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, where your host Danny Lobel and I were joined

by special guest, Professor Greg Sadler, as well as David Buchanan, Eric Weissengruber,

Tom Curtis, Ken Presting, and Bill from Seattle.

You can watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel, which is linked from partiallyexaminedlife.com,

and PEL citizens can download a slightly edited version by logging in to partiallyexaminedlife.com

and going to the ad-free episodes page.

It was a wide-ranging and interesting discussion where we covered theater, the arts, the sharing

economy, slavery, and this section you're about to hear is where we kind of got more

into the Dianisian and David shared his experience of Dianisian connection to other people

while listening to live music.

It's a lot of fun.

So enjoy.

The Festival of Dianisus was a popular festival throughout the Greek world, but in Athens,

it's officially recognized by the populist tyrant Pazistratus.

Like the guy who says, hey, we're all doing this Dianisus stuff.

Let's make it part of our life in this city.

It's a public festival in which everyone will participate.

It's a popular god that touches all sorts of people, not high priest, people of great

prestige.

You know, it's that populist tyrant that, you know, officially says, let's make this

part of our city.

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