El diálogo de Melos. Desde la interpretación de Nietzsche hacia la visión trágica de Tucídides

Abstract

This work analyses the famous and “terrible” dialogue that Thucydides presents in his History of the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Melians and seeks to highlight elements that would show a tragic vision of history and human affairs on the part of its author. For this purpose, Nietzsche's interpretation of this dialogue, specifically in paragraphs 92 and 93 of Human, all too Human I, is used as a heuristic element. According to the interpretation of the text, it is suggested that Nietzsche's interpretation is, at least, incomplete and in order to affirm this a scheme of analysis has been used with two planes: that of the particular-visible and that of the general-invisible. The dialectic between these planes, which expands in the dialogue itself between what it concretely says and what it leaves silent, would reveal to what extent Nietzsche's analysis focuses only on one of them, while the other, as a complement to the first, would reveal the broader vision of the author of the dialogue himself as a tragic vision.

Keywords

• thucydides
• nietzsche
• melian dialogue
• peloponnesian war
• tragedy