Gherardo Ugolini

Among the characters belonging to classical mythology Prometheus is a significant point of reference that accompanied Nietzsche’s philological studies and philosophical reflection since the years of his early adolescence to the full maturity. The reception of the Promethean myth follows two parallel and complementary directions: the theoretical and philosophical one, as an object of analysis in order to find some specific symbolic meanings, and the artistic and mythopoietical one, as an inspiration for the composition of dramatic works...