Autore
Scarpelli, Giacomo

Titolo
«Quelle scene troiane di lotte e di orrori». Nietzsche, "l’Iliade" e le rovine di Troia
Periodico
Intersezioni
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 37 - Pagina finale: 55

Homer stands as the poet who reanimated and depicted the primal, instinctual condition of a fierce and cruel Greekness; he was the first to illuminate the irrational with the lamp of Apollonian reason, seeking to explain its allure and impulses – traits that remain ineradicable even in modern man. This is the image that emerges from Nietzsche’s writings on the author of the "Iliad". The present essay seeks to explore this perspective in relation to the necessity of studying the past of philosophical thought as «another present», a notion Paolo Rossi derived from Giulio Preti. For this purpose, we return to the years when Nietzsche, then a young professor at the University of Basel, befriended the historian Jacob Burckhardt, aspired to visit Greece, and became intrigued by Schliemann’s excavations at Troy. This latter aspect, previously overlooked, offers a valuable perspective to the understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophical development.



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