RODRIGO JUVENTINO BASTOS DE MORAES

Abstract: the present work intends to present the Hellenism in the thought of the young Nietzsche associated with the Wagnerian project of renewal of German culture in the context of a newly unified Germany after the victory against the French in the Franco-Prussian War. Pointing to the renewal of national cultures associated with the bequest of the ancients was a procedure widely used among European thinkers since the trend created by the Italian Renaissance. How the Germans of the first half of the nineteenth century, and in the manner of German classics such as Winckelmann, Schiller and Goethe, Nietzsche wanted to present to the Germans an idealistic image of Greece, their educating homeland, which would be edifying for the German consciousness of the present. Richard Wagner's musical (...).