The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apollonian \Ap`ol*lo"ni*an\, Apollonic \Ap`ol*lon"ic\, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Apollo (Greek Apollon) + -ian. The Greek adjective was Apollonios. The word also is attested in English as Apollinarian (1753), Apolline (c.1600).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context Greek mythology English) Of or relating to the Greek god Apollo. 2 Of or relating to the Ancient Greek mathematician (w: Apollonius of Perga). 3 (alternative form of apollonian English)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "apollonian".
To paraphrase Nietzsche, there are two types of Greek: the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
On the third night after Jeremy had come aboard, he awakened, near midnight, from one of his Apollonian dreams, in which the Dark Youth had been summoning one of his concubines to attend him.
Jeremy had come aboard, he awakened, near midnight, from one of his Apollonian dreams, in which the Dark Youth had been summoning one of his concubines to attend him.
It was as if the knowledge he gained in this way was truly his, and he had the irrational idea that it might somehow cushion his fall if the dreaded tumble into Apollonian depths ever came.
He is a little man and no more than a boy, but he comports himself with Apollonian dignity.
And our means to do so are written in the Apollonian language Paralog.
There had been tasks for pretty, young cabin boys in the decadent years of the Fifties that the more Apollonian Zeds would never countenance.
The Angel had manifested a human face for the wondercruise: an Apollonian facade with bronzed skin, a long Roman nose, tight brass ringlets with bronze highlights.
Between him and Debussy there is the difference between the apollonian and the dionysiac, between the smooth, level, contained, perfect, and the darker, more turbulent, passionate, and instinctive.
Edgar triumphant over Edmund, the evil daughters dead, and Lear and Cordelia about to be rescued, the Apollonian form of tragedy has seemed on the verge of enclosing the Dionysiac turmoil.
Apollonian perhaps, nothing to do with the Michelangelesque nightmare.
These words open a journal I started to write, early in my rejuvenation, to keep my thoughts straight in the face of the culture shock I felt in being lifted bodily out of the Crazy Years of Tellus Prime - and plunked down in the almost Apollonian culture of Tellus Tertius.
Cnaeus Sicinius, who before quitting office had been sent to the fleet and army at Brundisium, had landed 5000 infantry and 300 cavalry in Epirus and was now encamped at Nymphaeum in the Apollonian district.