Die Welt der Götter in Friedrich Schillers Gedicht Die Götter Griechenlands

Abstract

In his poem The Gods of Greece, Friedrich Schiller refers, sometimes with obscure references, to the world of the ancient gods in order to praise antiquity as the actually happy epoch of mankind. At a time when the hopes that had been placed in the French Revolution of 1789 had not been fulfilled, art was to be praised as the real medium of education. Through an evolution, to be achieved through the path of art and through the role of literature, it was hoped to obtain an individual education that would make revolution superfluous in the future.