"In a brilliant book on "The Tyranny of Greece over Germany", Prof. E. M. Buttler dealt with Winckelmann and Lessing, Goethe and Schiller, Hoelderlin and Heine, Nietzsche and Stefan George. She might well have included Hegel under that suggestive title. What Rufold Haym doesn't recognize clearly enough is that Hegel's admiration for the Greeks was centered in Athens and based in large measure on the fussion there accomplished of art and religion with the ethical life of the citizens. Art, religion, and public life can hardly be disentangled even in retrospect: to which of them would one assign the Parthenon, the great statues of Zeus and Athena and Apollo, or the gathering at which Aeschylus and Sophocles, and a little later Sophocles and Euripides, vied for the first prize?"
W. Kaufmann, "Hegel".
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