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The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics included a controversial tableau that many people argued was a pastiche of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”. Before dealing with that issue in a later video, this one tackles the nature of the Smurf-like creature at the centre of the tableau.

The Olympic organisers claimed the figure represented the Greek god Dionysus and was being used to represent a call for world peace. I show how such a claim demonstrates our culture’s alarming ignorance and illiteracy. A failure to understand the true meaning of the Greek myths risks creating new, much more dangerous, myths in our society.

Full Text of The Birth of Tragedy:
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Daniel Frost Article:
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Rose Thompson Nietzsche article:
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Phillipe Katerine video:
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