Gustave Moreau: The Angels of Sodom, 1890

Nietzsche in his early period wanted to find in antiquity a cure for modern ills, yet failed because of the very sentiment expressed here. Historical science abandoned, the Greeks become a romantic projection and lose the very "otherness" which distinguishes them from modernity.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘯 Part V: Homeric Gods randallroark.com/HomericGods.ht…

Happy to say that a print edition of Volume 1 is forthcoming, expect it around the end of this month

φίλος φίλῳ χαλεπός, ἄλλοις δ᾽ ἐπαινεῖ.

Hellenism is the most conservative idea: it stands at our cultural beginning. The idea that truly Greek thought could be forward-looking is historical myopia; Renaissance, of course, is the recovery of something far older.

Nietzsche points out that Christian humility was meant to restrain fiercer ancients; likewise his own call to freedom and self-creation was more suited to over-educated 19th-c Europeans than our current laxity.

λυπηρόv, οὐδὲv ἔχειv πλὴv ἀδυvάτων ἐπέωv

Bought book

It has arrived.

Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus

If one has a genuine feeling for the Hellenic, he will recognize at once that Plato has absorbed many foreign elements, even if there is still much of what is Greek in him, but that the profound pessimism of Epicurus, Zeno, and Diogenes marks them as pure types.