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Nietzsche and Greek metre

Hallo Ottocs, I have read your remark on the Nietzsche talk page. As the sentence you put in question is based upon a part of the German wikipedia article on Nietzsche written largely by me, I am the one to blame.

I am a complete layman in this field. What I wrote was my understanding of Nietzsche's letters to Erwin Rohde, 23-XI-1870, and to Carl Fuchs, mid-April 1886 and end of August 1888. Also, there is a text in the Nietzsche-Studien 18 (1889), by Fritz Bornmann, about "Nietzsches metrische Studien". [1]. As far as I understand it, from Richard Bentley up to the middle of the 19th century, scholars believed in what Nietzsche calls "rhythmischer Ictus" (Bornmann uses the term "metrischer Iktus"), and Nietzsche (privately) argued against it. The question remained open in scholar circles until ca. the 1920s and 1930s, when the belief in this "metrischen Iktus" was "silently buried" (Bornmann). I think I remember from Bornmann's text that Paul Maas in his work Griechische Metrik [2] (1923) destroyed the belief in metrical ictus and even gave some credit to Nietzsche, whose letters and notes on the matter had already partially been published by then. Nietzsche's letters for me seemed to indicate that he was in fact up to something which was not common knowledge by then. Still, as said before, I do not know much, if anything, about this topic, and so your help in getting the point right in the Nietzsche article would be very much appreciated.--Chef aka Pangloss 19:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]