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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Greek tragedy had a fate different from that of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide, in consequence of an irreconcilable conflict”
The Birth of Tragedy, §11, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
The opening of the account of Euripides, who is blamed for destroying tragedy from within.
Citation: "Greek tragedy had a fate different from that of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide, in consequence of an irreconcilable conflict" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §11, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q11)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
