Nietzsche and Antiquity

Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow. JOHN T. HAMILTON is the William R. Kenan Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University. Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow.

• Nietzsche, Homer, and the Classical Tradition - James I. Porter"Unhistorical Greeks": Myth, History, and the Uses of Antiquity - Neville MorleyBreeding Greeks: Nietzsche, Gobineau, and Classical Theories of Race - Nicholas MartinEcce Philologus: Nietzsche and Pindar's Second Pythian Ode - John HamiltonNietzsche, Aristotle, and Propositional Discourse - Peter Yates"Politeia" 1871: Young Nietzsche on the Greek State - Martin A. RuehlNietzsche and Democritus: The Origins of Ethical Eudaimonism - Jessica N. Berry"Full of Gods": Nietzsche on Greek Polytheism and Culture - Albert HenrichsAn Impossible Virtue: Heraclitean Justice and Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation - Simon GillhamCults and Migrations: Nietzsche's Meditations on Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and the Greek Mysteries - Isabelle Vanden PoelCults and Migrations: Nietzsche's Meditations on Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and the Greek Mysteries - Danny PraetCults and Migrations: Nietzsche's Meditations on Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and the Greek Mysteries - Benjamin BiebuyckNietzsche's Cynicism: Uppercase or lowercase? - R. Bracht BranhamNietzsche's Unpublished Fragments on Ancient Cynicism: The First Night of Diogenes - Anthony K. JensenNietzsche's Stoicism: The Depths Are Inside - R. O. ElvetonNietzsche and Plato - Laurence LampertNietzsche, Nehemas, and "Self-Creation" - Thomas A. MeyerGod Unpicked - John S. MooreNietzsche's Wrestling with Plato and Platonism - Thomas BrobjerOn the Relationship of Alcibiades' Speech to Nietzsche's "Problem of Socrates" - David N. McNeillDionysus versus Dionysus - Dylan JaggardRhetoric, Judgment, and the Art of Surprise in Nietzsche's Genealogy - Fiona JenkinsHow Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals Depicts Psychological Distance between Ancients and Moderns - David F. HorkottNietzsche's Aesthetic Solution to the Problem of Epigonism in the Nineteenth Century - Burkhard Meyer-SickendiekFrom Tragedy to Philosophical Novel - Barry StockerNietzsche, Interpretation, and Truth - David M. A. CampbellNietzsche's Remarks on the Classical Tradition: A Prognosis for Western Democracy in the Twenty-First Century - Mark HammondThe Invention of Antiquity: Nietzsche on Classicism, Classicality, and the Classical Tradition - Christian EmdenNietzsche and the "Classical": Traditional and Innovative Features of Nietzsche's Usage, with Special Reference to Goethe - Herman SiemensConflict and Repose: Dialectics of the Greek Ideal in Nietzsche and Winckelmann - Dirk t. D. HeldNietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism - Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel CohenNietzsche's Anti-Christianity as a Return to (German) Classicism - Paul BishopThe Dioscuri: Nietzsche and Erwin Rohde - Alan Cardew

The present collection is the most wide-ranging attempt yet undertaken to explore Nietzsche's peculiar importance for the history of Classics. It brings together Hellenists, Germanists and philosophers who engage with a whole array of Nietzsche's classical interests, among them Homer, the Presocratics, Socrates and Plato ..., the Cynics, Stoicism, and Greek religion.