2012
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Christophe Corbier, « Subjectivité lyrique et chanson populaire : Archiloque et le genre iambique de Friedrich Schlegel à Friedrich Nietzsche », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.z97y43
During the nineteenth century, German philosophers and historians study the lyric poetry of Archilochus, known only by fragments, in connection with the theory of literary genre and music history. Friedrich Schlegel considers Archilochus as the first “subjective” artist who created, after Homer’s epic poetry, the iambic genre. Then, whereas Hegel does not mention his name in his Aesthetic for several reasons which can be explained, K. O. Müller, R. Westphal and F. A. Gevaert, on musical evidences, make Archilochus a genius who introduced folksongs in Greek art. Last of all, for Nietzsche, in Birth of Tragedy and his philological texts, written between 1870 and 1875, Archilochus, musician and poet, represents the first Dionysian-Apollinian artist and plays an important role in the lyric process which leads to Attic drama.