Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Section 1: The Classical Greeks
7. Nietzsche, Homer, and the Classical Tradition 6
8. “Unhistorical Greeks”: Myth, History, and the Uses of Antiquity 27
9. Breeding Greeks: Nietzsche, Gobineau, and Classical Theories of Race 40
10. Ecce Philologus: Nietzsche and Pindar’s Second Pythian Ode 54
11. Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Propositional Discourse 70
12. Politeia 1871: Young Nietzsche on the Greek State 79
13. Nietzsche and Democritus: The Origins of Ethical Eudaimonism 98
14. “Full of Gods”: Nietzsche on Greek Polytheism and Culture 114
15. Section 2 Pre-Socratics and Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics
16. An Impossible Virtue: Heraclitean Justice and Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation 138
17. Cults and Migrations: Nietzsche’s Meditations on Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and the Greek Mysteries 151
18. Nietzsche’s Cynicism: Uppercase or lowercase? 170
19. Nietzsche’s Unpublished Fragments on Ancient Cynicism: The First Night of Diogenes 182
20. Nietzsche’s Stoicism: The Depths Are Inside 192
21. Section 3 Nietzsche and the Platonic Tradition
22. Nietzsche and Plato 204
23. Nietzsche, Nehamas, and “Self-Creation” 220
24. God Unpicked 228
25. Nietzsche’s Wrestling with Plato and Platonism 241
26. On the Relationship of Alcibiades’ Speech to Nietzsche’s “Problem of Socrates” 260
27. Section 4 Contestations
28. Dionysus versus Dionysus 276
29. Rhetoric, Judgment, and the Art of Surprise in Nietzsche’s Genealogy 295
30. How Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals Depicts Psychological Distance between Ancients and Moderns 310
31. Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Solution to the Problem of Epigonism in the Nineteenth Century 318
32. From Tragedy to Philosophical Novel 329
33. Nietzsche, Interpretation, and Truth 343
34. Nietzsche’s Remarks on the Classical Tradition: A Prognosis for Western Democracy in the Twenty-First Century 361
35. Section 5 German Classicism
36. The Invention of Antiquity: Nietzsche on Classicism, Classicality, and the Classical Tradition 371
37. Nietzsche and the “Classical”: Traditional and Innovative Features of Nietzsche’s Usage, with Special Reference to Goethe 391
38. Conflict and Repose: Dialectics of the Greek Ideal in Nietzsche and Winckelmann 411
39. Nietzsche’s Ontological Roots in Goethe’s Classicism 425
40. Nietzsche’s Anti-Christianity as a Return to (German) Classicism 441
41. The Dioscuri: Nietzsche and Rohde 458
42. Notes on the Contributors 479
43. Index 485