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In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche draws the following contrast between Aeschylus and Sophocles:
The splendid ‘ability’ of the great genius for which even eternal suffering is a slight price, the stern pride of the artist — that is the content of Aeschylus’ poem, while Sophocles in his Oedipus sounds as a prelude the holy man’s song of triumph.1
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Notes and References
BT, Section 9, p. 70.
AC, Section 51, p. 168.
BGE, ‘What is Religion?’, Section 49, p. 64.
TI, ‘The Four Great Errors’, Section 8, p. 54.
EH, ‘Why I am So Clever’, Section 10, p. 258.
Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own, trans. Steven Byington with intro. by Sidney Parker (Rebel Press, 1982).
HAH, ‘On the History of the Moral Sensations’, Section 107, pp. 57f.
R. J. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation, (Cambridge University Press, 1980) p. 19.
Ibid., p. 156.
Sophocles, Volume II, The Loeb Classical Library, Ajax, trans. F. Storr (London: William Heinemann and New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929) p. 49.
Ibid., p. 119.
G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind, trans. with an intro. and notes by J. B. Baillie (George Allen and Unwin, 1966) p. 477. First published in Gret Britain 1910.
Ibid., p. 476.
A. C. Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry (Macmillan, 1959). First edn. 1909.
WP, Book Four, ‘Discipline and Breeding’, III. ‘The Eternal Recurrence’, Section 1066, p. 549.
Sophocles Volume II, Antigone, p. 321.
Ibid., p. 381.
WP, Book Two, ‘Critique of the Highest Values Hitherto’, no. 379, p. 204.
Jan Kott, The Eating of the Gods, trans. Boreslaw Taborski and J. Czerwinski (Eyre Methuen, 1974) p. 139.
B. M. W. Knox, Oedipus at Thebes (Oxford University Press, 1957) p. 116.
BT, Section 9, pp. 67f.
Sophocles, Volume I, Oedipus at Colonus p. 147.
Ibid., p. 183.
H. D. F. Kitto, Greek Tragedy — A Literary Study (Methuen, 1939) p. 401.
Oedipus at Colonus, p. 361.
Heraclitus, On the Universe, trans. W. H. S. Jones (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press and London: William Heineman, 1979).
Ibid., Fragment 41, p. 483.
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May, K.M. (1990). Sophocles. In: Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09882-8_3
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