DELPHI AND CAPE SOUNION

The Temple of Apollo at Delphi and the Theater there.  Some say Dionysus also stayed there and that it may have been a double temple dedicated to both Apollo and Dionysus.  The philosopher Frederick Nietzsche wrote a famous essay The Birth of Tragedy Out Of The Spirit of Music.  He contrasted the Apollonian with the Dionysian spirit – the rational spirit with the spirit of ecstasy and frenzy.  Apollo was the god of light.  But at times Dionysius would spend time “inhabiting” the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

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Kevin Cassidy is a computer consultant, website designer, blog developer, transcriptionist, and MS Office specialist living in Houston, Texas. He was born in 1946 and grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan a suburb around Detroit. He moved to Houston, Texas in 1966 to attend the University of St. Thomas. Kevin Cassidy taught yoga at the School of Yoga in the 1970s in Houston where he has lived for over 35 years. He is an amateur student of world history with special interests in the world literature, architecture, art, archaeology, and military history. In 1978, Kevin Cassidy photographed many of the temples and archaeology sites in Egypt, Greece, and Israel. He has continued reading and researching in those areas (as well as many others) since then and is planning blogs on many of the themes above. Living in the Menil Collection / Rothko Chapel / Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum neighborhood for over 30 years, Kevin has attended many of the cultural events and experienced much of the cultural phenomena presented by these institutions. The Rothko Chapel opened in 1971. The Menil Collection museum in 1987. The Cy Twombly Pavilion museum in 1995, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel museum in 1997. The Byzantine Fresco Chapel closed in March 2012. Kevin was there for three of the openings as well as the Opening of the Menil Collection at the Grand Palais in Paris 1984.
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