The Florentine Treatise on Homer and Hesiod, their Ancestry and their Competition: A New Reader's Edition
May 2024 · The Complete Works of Nietzsche Book 13 · Livraria Press
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"The Florentine Treatise on Homer and Hesiod, their Ancestry and their Competition" is one of Nietzsche's early Philology works, before he fully turned towards Philosophy, "Das florentinische Tractat über Homer und Hesiod" is an academic commentary on the Florentine Treatise (Βιβλιοθήκη της Φλωρεντίας), which has an unknown original author. This work by Nietzsche was also printed in Latin instead of German the following year, titled "Certamen quod dicitur Homeri et Hesiodi". The original manuscript, which Nietzsche analyzes and comments on, is a story of the life together of Homer and Hesiod, written around an account of a contest between them, said to have taken place at Chalcis, where they presented their best poetry. Hesiod is declared the winner of this competition between poets and philosophers. The crowd is said to have favored Homer. The passages selected from the manuscript show Homer as the poet of war, Hesiod as the poet of peace. The story is familiar to Varro and later writers, and is ignored in the famous Lives of Homer. The treatise dates from the Antonine period, but much of it is taken verbatim from an earlier source lost to time. This new translation from the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A complete chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life journey
About the author
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, musician (briefly) and philologist whose work has had a profound impact on modern intellectual history. Known for his critiques of traditional European morality and religion, Nietzsche's ideas on the "will to power" and the "Übermensch" have influenced a wide range of philosophical, literary, and psychological thought including thinkers such as Michael Foucault and the entire Postmodern religion.
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