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The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.
The Apollonian spirit is one of measure, reason, and control; the Dionysian is one of abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release.
The Dionysian mixes bad taste with good taste, pain with pleasure.
The Apollonian line begins with Washington Irving, the Dionysian with James Fenimore Cooper.
The division seems like a version of the one drawn by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy between Apollonian and Dionysian art.