Definition of "Apollonian"

You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24

The forces of nature is a major theme embodied in the two main goddess characters. The "northern woman" is Appollonian [sic] in her nature — cold, reserved, quiet, identified with the moon; the "southern woman" is Dionysian — passionate, a sun goddess.

1979 August 4, Linda Stein, “Stopping Short of Self-Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 18

They speak Aowin [Anyi] but their blood is Apollonian blood.

2011, Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By contrast, Apollonians value reason more than feeling.

2008, Herbert Spiegel, David Spiegel, Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis, page 120

Apollonians and Dionysians are usually the same people: now sober and serene, now drunk and frenzied.

2011, Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century, page 24

Those of us who were Apollonians had thus a chance to organize a programme. The Dionysians knew what was going to happen to them, but, of course, did not know yet how to cope with it.

2013, Raphael Massarelli, Lloyd A. Horrocks, Julian N. Kanfer, Phospholipids and Signal Transmission

Apollonians are creative artists, but while all Apollonians love the arts, there are both creative and business types of Apollonians.

2016, Ellen Goldberg, Dorian Bergen, The Art and Science of Hand Reading

But the Apollonians being soon informed of the thing, caused him to appear without delay before the court of justice; and sentenced him to lose his eyes, for sleeping when he ought to have watched.

1824, Isaac Littlebury, transl., The History of Herodotus

Another clause in the rules of conduct drawn up for defeated Appolonia virtually transferred jurisdiction to Maclean: by it, he invited 'every Appolonian who may be oppressed or injured wither [i.e. whether] by Quacoe Accah [Kwaku Akkah, the King] or any other chief ... to make his complaint to the governor of Cape Coast

1978, Paul Mmegha Mbaeyi, British Military and Naval Forces in West African History, 1807-1874

McIlvaine and colleagues (2014) examined a cemetery at the Greek colony of Apollonia, Albania to assess to what degree interbreeding may have occurred between indigenous Illyrians and colonial Apollonians.

2015, Joel D. Irish, G. Richard Scott, A Companion to Dental Anthropology, page 261

At first, when the Apollonians converged on her, Mary Theresa thought she had made a major mistake by going to the battle.

2013, Jim Henry, Universal Life Force Series Featuring Antiquity Calais Vol. 1-3

The last person who tried this kind of appeal was actually the new vessel -- an Apollonian, one I knew briefly.

2013, James Bartholomeusz, The Grey Star, page 17