Abstract

MACEDO, Iracema. Nietzsche, Bayreuth and the Greeks' tragic age.Translated byPaulo Pimenta Marques. Kriterion [online]. 2006, vol.2Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0100-512X.

This article deals with Richard Wagner's and Nietzsche's interpretations of the "tragic age" and the investigation they carried out in their works, regarding the link between posterity and Greek art. Using the relationship with Greece as a point of reference, the article also analyses the philosophic reasons for the friendship and subsequent theoretical rupture between Wagner and Nietzsche.

Keywords : Wagner; Nietzsche; Greece.