Inhaltsangabe:
  • Winckelmann and the myth of Greece
  • The ancient image of death: Lessing and his impact
  • Antiquity and reason: Wieland
  • The Greeks and hisory: Herder
  • Prometheus: Young Goethe
  • Islands and idyls: Heinse, Müller and Forster
  • Iphigenia and Italy: Goethe
  • The semblance of paganism: Schiller
  • The greek gods and christ: Hölderlin
  • Christianity versus aesthetic paganism: Some romanticists
  • Aesthetics and culture: Humboldt
  • The retun of Helen: Goethe
  • Notes
  • Index.