In the Classical Age, Apollo represented the Greek aristocratic ideal of young, vigorous manhood. ... To the Greeks of the Classical age, he's foreign in many respects as he represents the opposite of reason and austerity. ... In the Classical Greek society, the festivities of Dionysus signified a break from the routine of everyday life: a rest for the wife from weaving and the husband from social conformity. ...

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"The true living world of fire is dark, throbbing, darker than blood. Our luminous world that we go by is only the white lining of this" (Dionys to Daphne in "The Ladybird"). What narrative strategies does Lawrence employ to convey this sense of a world "darker than blood"? How do these strategie...

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