Nietzsche and Greek Thought

I. Nietzsche\'s Philosophic Historiography.- Nietzsche\'s Use of Intellectual History.- History and the Self -Definition of Humanity.- II. Nietzsche on the Greek Decline.- \"Socrates\" as a Symptom of the Greek Decline.- III. Nietzsche on the Early Presocratics.- Philosophy in \"the Tragic Age\".- Nietzsche on Anaximander.- Nietzsche on Herakleitos.- Nietzsche and Parmenides.- IV. Positivism and Ecstasy.- Rationality without Beauty, Release without Proportion.- Poetry as Dianoia, Imagination as Rationality.- V. Keeping Track of \"Socrates\".- The Socrates of the Pythagorizing and Oligarchal Tradition.- Nietzsche\'s Traditionalist Reading of Plato.- VI. What Nietzsche Loved About Socrates.- Nietzsche\'s Dialectic and Anti-Systematics.- Plato\'s Socrates is Not a Twilit Idol.- VII. The Tyranny of \"Reason\".- \"Rationalism\" and \"Morality,\" Reason and Nature.- Man\'s Fatedness is Existential.- Nietzsche\'s Remarks on Aristotle, and the Tragic Sense.- Epilogue.