The first stretch of this argument (602c 603b) uses theoretical language evidently taken from the Republic's psychological theory while the second (603b 608b) appeals to generally observable phenomena surrounding the performances of tragedies.
But it is an incredible incarnation: he just becomes Oscar Wilde, in the first act offering a camp and melodramatic performance of tragedy, in the second act living a real one.
Cultural conformity was not, for Young's Nietzsche, something to be enforced through political power, but rather something generated spontaneously through communal participation in art, much as the ancient Greek polis had been bound together through the common performance of tragedy.
After the cult of Dionysus was placed under state sponsorship, prizes were awarded at the yearly Dionysia for the singing of dithyrambs and, from 534, for the performance of tragedies.
The Asclepian temple at Epidavros was surrounded by sports and cultural facilities, including the 14,000-seat amphitheatre which is still used every summer for performances of Greek tragedies.
Today, it is the site of one of the world's finest archaeological museums, Museo Eoliano, best known for housing the oldest and most complete range of Greek theatrical masks used in early performances of the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides and the comedies of Aristophanes and Melander.
In 1797 the performance of his tragedy Tieste ("Thyestes") made him famous.
These were honorable attempts to evoke the actual performance of Greek tragedy, which we know to have been sung.
A Swiss tourist named Thomas Platter saw the play on September 21 1599 and described it (in German) as "an excellent performance of the tragedy of the first emperor [Kaiser] Julius Caesar with about 15 characters".
Following the film, the couple appeared on stage, without payment, at Oxford University, for five sold-out performances of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy Dr Faustus, the proceeds of which were to go to build an Oxford University Theatre Centre.
