Die Götter Griechenlandes
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"The Gods of Greece" ("Die Götter Griechenlandes") is a 1788 poem by the German writer Friedrich Schiller. It was first published in Wieland's Der Teutsche Merkur, with a second, shorter version (with much of its controversial content removed) published by Schiller himself in 1800. Schiller's poem proved influential in light of [Philhellenism] and seems to have influenced later German thinkers' views on history, Paganism and myth, possibly including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Max Weber.[1]: 78–80, 85–6
In The Gods of Greece, Schiller presents a universal view of history. He uses the [gods] as a proxy for the perceived enchantment of nature and the moral-aesthetic values that Schiller associated with this imagined idea of nature. Schiller constructs the poem as a lamentation for myth and enchantment against mechanical philosophy.[1]: 82–3 Although (or perhaps because) the poem shows Christian Theosophical influences, The Gods of Greece became controversial when published because Schiller appeared to defend Paganism against Christianity, necessitating its second publication.[1]: 81
A fragment of this poem was set by Franz Schubert in November 1819 (D677).
References
- ^ a b c Josephson-Storm, Jason (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-40336-X.
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