Nietzsche interpreter of the Greek agonistic

Abstract

This paper broaches the greek competitiveness spirit's influence – the agonistic – along Nietzsche's work, not only on his helenistic writings, but also on his maturity works. It is intended to analyse the importance that the german philosopher gives to this disposition, whose greatest expression would have been reached through, Homer, Hesiod and Heraclitus. The agonistic professes the constant strength overcoming among the men, intending to achieve the development of works that makes possible the affirmation of human excellence and the overcoming of a pessimistic, decadent world view, on the behalf of the beauty and glory affirmation, becoming, consequently, one of the considerable Nietzsche's philosophy theme: the creation of life's affirmative values through of the interaction of powers that ensure the victory against the inertia and the weakness of the vital instincts.