The Nietzsche’s writings of the period of The birth of tragedy informs about the young philosopher’s concerns with the requisite political conditions for a true culture. The pair Apollo and Dionysus, in opposition and harmonized in Greek religiosity, as powers of the nature, results aesthetically in the tragic art, and politically results in a warlike State. Nietzsche assigns to Greeks the capacity to create a culture: art, state and religion jointed by the artistic will of nature, which impels the life (...) of a nation. (shrink)