Abstract
When we think of Greece, the “Place of Desire” (Wunsch-Ort) of the German, and especially of the relation between Nietzsche and Greece, many things could indeed come to our attention. Greece could be interpreted in many different ways in Nietzsche’s work. Although we can all agree that, to Nietzsche, the Greek world is a tool of insurmountable critical value. They are spectators of the difference that separates them from us. They are an unattainable (unerreichbare) and unattained (unerreichte) cultural alternative, which allows us to orient ourselves, although from which, frequently and most easily, we can draw apart from. Nietzsche uses the Greek world in order to deepen the blind ethnocentric confidence crisis of modern man. As a Historian and Philologist, Nietzsche uses Greek literature to fight against scientific absolutism (there’s only one World, only one Science, only one ratio, mine) of modern world. His criticism aims to falsify the modern scientific categories, proceeding with a genealogical study, which should “transvaluate” the basis of the modern western society.
Keywords
literature; orality; writing; philology