The Tyranny of Greece Over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry Over the Great German Writers of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

CHAPTER   I
GENERAL SURVEY                                      1
                        CHAPTER   II
Tue DiscovERER:    WINCKELMANN      (1717-1768)    9
   1. A Latter-day Greek                          11
  2.  Rome                                       18
  3. Eros                                        28
  4. Destiny                                     34
  5. The Myth of Laocoon                         43
                        CHAPTER Ill
THE INTERPRETERS: LEssinG (1729-1781) AND
        HERDER (1744~-1803)                      49
   1. Lessing into the Lists                     51
  2. Laocoon again                               56
  3.  Herder echoes ‘Laocoon’                    71
  4.  The Invasion                                80
                       CHAPTER IV
THE CREATOR: GOETHE       (1749-1832)            83
   1. Prometheus                                 85
  2.  Iphigenia                                  93
  3.  Italy                                     105
  4.  Winckelmann’s Rome                        116
  5.  The Homerid                               121
  6.  Helena                                    135
  7.  The Daimon                                146
                       CHAPTER V
THE ANTAGONIST: SCHILLER (1759-1805)                    155
     A Colossus manqué
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     The Drama of Youth                                 159
      ON         The Gods of Greece                     164
                 Avaunt!                                173
      AF         Fate                                   188
                                     CHAPTER    VI
 THe Martyr: HOLDERLIN (1770-1843)                      201
   1. Icarus                                            203
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                 Obsession                              207
                 Diotima                                217
                 The pale Galilean                      225
                 Scardanelli                            234
                                     CHAPTER    VII
 THE REBEL: HEINE (1797-1856)                           241
                 Lucifer                                243
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                 The Gods as Ghosts                     250
                 The Gods as Devils                     264
                 The Gods in Exile                      289
                 Evoe, Bacche!                          299
                                     CHAPTER   VIII
 THe AFTERMATH                                          301
    1. Winckelmann redivivus: MHeinrich Schlie-
        mann (1822-1890)                                303
       The Dionysiac: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900)   307
       The Mythologist: Carl Spitteler (1845-1924)      316
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       The Mystagogue: Stefan George (1868-1933)        322
       Conclusion                                       332