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Quotation from The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The dying Socrates_ became the new ideal of the noble Greek youths,--an ideal they had never yet beheld”
The Birth of Tragedy, §13, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909)
Socrates' calm death, as narrated by Plato, replaces the tragic hero as the model for Greek youth.
Citation: "The dying Socrates_ became the new ideal of the noble Greek youths,--an ideal they had never yet beheld" — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, §13, trans. William A. Haussmann (1909). (id the-birth-of-tragedy-q12)
Portrait: Nietzsche187a, Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain.
