Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Homer and Classical Philology (1869) is his inaugural lecture at the University of Basel. It diagnoses a crisis in 19th-century philology, calling for a shift from dry data collection toward a synthesis of aesthetics, history, and philosophy. Using the 'Homeric question', he argues that epics are not the work of a single historical genius, but the collective aesthetic product of a whole culture.
