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Greek Tyranny over Germany: on the Influence of Greek Art and Poetry on the Great German Writers

(uk) Eliza Marian Butler

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Eliza Marianne Barthes was a famous British critic in the 20th century. "Greek Tyranny over Germany" is her masterpiece and her most influential work. By describing and analyzing the entanglement between Winckelmann, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Heine and other German writers in the fields of art and poetry with ancient Greece, this book studies the influence of Greek art and poetry on great German writers since the 18th century, revealing an extremely strange, subtle, and decisive process of the German national soul.