„Odi profanum vulgus et arceo“. Zwei lateinische Oden des Schülers Nietzsche

Abstract

AbstractThe detailed interpretation and translation of Nietzsche’s early Latin odes clearly show that Horace’s lyric poetry has an exemplary function for the development of Nietzsche’s own poetic language. Even in his later works, such asTwilight of the Idolsand theDionysos-Dithyrambs, Nietzsche’s poetic style and rhetorical strategies remain indebted to his early attempts to emulate classical Latin poetry when he was a pupil at the Pforta boarding school.