Orphism and the Dionysian Gaze: Myth, Art, and Lyric Poetry in Ancient Greece
Journal Title: Revista Académica Estesis - Year 2025, Vol 1, Issue 18
Abstract
In today's totally desacralized and thus also disconnectedworld, Orpheus' attitude, namely the turning of the gazetowards the sacred, or Euridice in Hell, undoubtedly im-plies the assumption of the refreshing (and redemptive)stance of the tragic: a joyful and necessary return to thefascination with the unknown, that human enchantmentthat provokes an eagerness for discovery and surprise.And this displacement supposes, in a way, the explanationof the mechanism of Tragic Philosophy, because it affirms,from its own exercise, the absolute task and the original-ity that is inherent to this conception. It owes nothing toanyone; it is gratuitousness in its most primordial andprivileged state. Orpheus and Dionysus' glance constitutesnot only an artful curiosity for otherness but must alsobe assumed as the need for self-affirmation-in-the-world.Hellenic tragedy, heir to the Orphic myth, is not, therefore,a vision of the world as knowledge, a treatise of under-standing or even philosophy, but must be understood, if wefollow the coordinates of thought that we defend here, asthe most radical affirmation of finitude as vitality in excess(and surplus) of itself, for itself and in itself.
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Francisco Aranda Espinosa
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