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WHAT'S NIETZSCHE TO EURIPIDES? THE AESTHETICS OF SUFFERING IN NIETZSCHE'S BIRTH OF TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES’ TROJAN WOMEN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2021

Zachary Case
Zachary Case*
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King's College, Cambridge, UK
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*Email: zc270@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article reads Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy in dialogue with Euripides’ Trojan Women, synthesising a Nietzschean reading of Euripides’ tragedy with, as it were, a Euripidean reading of Nietzsche's theorisation of the tragic. It focuses on the way in which both texts confront the threat of nihilism in the face of human suffering and attempt to redeem or transfigure it. This is manifested internally and self- consciously in Euripides’ play through the actions of Hecuba and the chorus, who seem both to exhibit what Nietzsche might call a ‘pessimism of strength’, and to express Nietzsche's fundamental claim that ‘only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified’. Yet Trojan Women ultimately resists Nietzschean theorising – a form of critical resistance which, as it will turn out, is already anticipated by Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. More than a close study of two texts, this dialogic reading also has some big implications for thinking through the relationship between philosophy and tragedy in general.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 67 , December 2021 , pp. 25 - 50
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Cambridge Philological Society

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The text of Trojan Women is that of Diggle (1981) and all Greek translations are my own. No translations of Nietzsche are my own and the references are to the page number of the relevant edition. I am grateful above all to Tim Whitmarsh for his continual guidance. My thanks must also go to Jim Porter for his generous feedback; to Richard Hunter and Simon Goldhill for their constructive criticism when this piece began its life; and to Tom Hall, Cecily Manson, Felix Schlichter and the audience at a Cambridge conference on Evil in Ancient Philosophy for helping me in their own ways. The comments of the anonymous referee proved more than helpful as well.

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Poole, A. (1976) ‘Total disaster: Euripides’ The Trojan women’, Arion 3, 257–87.Google Scholar
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Pucci, P. (1977) ‘Euripides: the monument and the sacrifice’, Arethusa 10, 165–95.Google Scholar
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Schopenhauer, A. (1969) The world as will and representation. Vol. ii, trans. Payne, E. F. J., New York.Google Scholar
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Scodel, R. (1998) ‘The captive's dilemma: sexual acquiescence in Euripides Hecuba and Troades’, HSPh 98, 137–54.Google Scholar
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Silk, M. S. (ed.) (1996a) Tragedy and the tragic: Greek theatre and beyond, Oxford.Google Scholar
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Silk, M. S. (2015) ‘Epilogue: tragedy and modernity, closing thoughts’, in Billings and Leonard (2015) 306–13.Google Scholar
Silk, M. S. and Stern, J. P. (2016) Nietzsche on tragedy, 2nd edn, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Steiner, G. (1996) ‘Tragedy, pure and simple’, in Silk (1996a) 534–46.Google Scholar
Suter, A. (2003) ‘Lament in Euripides’ Trojan women’, Mnemosyne 56, 1–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Szondi, P. (1961) Versuch über das Tragische, Frankfurt am Mein.Google Scholar
Taplin, O. (1986) ‘Fifth-century tragedy and comedy: a synkrisis’, JHS 106 63–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taplin, O. (1996) ‘Comedy and the tragic’, in Silk (1996a), 188–202.Google Scholar
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Torrance, I. (2013) Metapoetry in Euripides, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vernant, J. P. and Vidal-Naquet, P. (1988) Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece, trans. Lloyd, J., Cambridge, MA and London.Google Scholar
Visvardi, E. (2011) ‘Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan women’, in Carter (2011) 269–92.Google Scholar
Visvardi, E. (2015) Emotion in action: Thucydides and the tragic chorus, Leiden.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weiss, N. A. (2018) The music of tragedy: performance and imagination in Euripidean theatre, Oakland.Google Scholar
Whitmarsh, T. (2017) ‘Quantum Classics: literature, historicism, untimeliness, uncertainty’, in Grethlein, J. and Rengakos, A. (eds.) Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung: Traditionen, Probleme und Konzepte, Berlin and Boston, 30–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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