/lit/ - Literature

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it´s meaningless your inquiry since most ancient greek art is lost, but the few that remained clearly had an impact in medieval europe and onwards, you can cope with your "they just copied the outer layers" or some bullshit like that, it´s clearly a northern european, specifically german nationalist bias that clouded spengler´s view, same as his opinion that we shouldn´t strive for high art because he himself was a failed artist, a failed playwrighter to be more specific, backed by this book >>20871471


at least someone like Neetszche, a failed pianist/composer, even a failed human being if you view by the lenses of his then contemporaries didn´t take the coward´s way out in projecting his deficiences onto his philosophy and worldview, ironic considering that spengler viewed him as one of his influences