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>From: "Max Herman" <[email protected]>
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>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:19:12 -0500
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But as the youths to be educated were brought up struggling against one
another, so their educators were in turn in emulation amongst themselves.
Distrustfully jealous, the great musical masters, Pindar and Simonides,
stepped side by side; in rivalry the sophist, the higher teacher of
antiquity meets his fellow-sophist; even the most universal kind of
instruction, through the drama, was imparted to the people only under the
form of an enormous wrestling of the great musical and dramatic artists. How
wonderful! "And even the artist has a grudge against the artist!" And the
modern man dislikes in an artist nothing so much as the personal
battle-feeling, whereas the Greek recognizes the artist only in such a
personal struggle. There were the modern suspects weakness of the work of
art, the Hellene seeks the source of his highest strength! That, which by
way of example in Plato is of special artistic importance in his dialogues,
is usually the result of an emulation with the art of the orators, of the
sophists, of the dramatists of his time, invented deliberately in order that
at the end he could say: "Behold, I can also do what my great rivals can;
yea I can do it even better than they. No Protagoras has composed such
beautiful myths as I, no dramatist such a spirited and fascinating whole as
the Symposion, no orator penned such an oration as I put up in the
Gorgias