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"The Gods of Greece" ("Die Götter Griechenlandes") is a 1788 poem by the German writer Friedrich Schiller. It was first published in Wieland's Der Teutsche Merkur, with a second, shorter version (with much of its controversial content removed) published by Schiller himself in 1800. Schiller's poem proved influential in light of German Philhellenism and seems to have influenced later German thinkers' views on history, Paganism and myth, possibly including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Max Weber.^{[1]:78-80, 85-6}

In The Gods of Greece, Schiller presents a universal view of history. He uses the Greek gods as a proxy for the perceived enchantment of nature and the moral-aesthetic values that Schiller associated with this imagined idea of nature. Schiller constructs the poem as a lamentation for myth and enchantment against mechanical philosophy.^[1]:82-3 Although (or perhaps because) the poem shows Christian Theosophical influences, The Gods of Greece became controversial when published because Schiller appeared to defend Paganism against Christianity, necessitating its second publication.^[1]:81

A fragment of this poem was set by Franz Schubert in November 1819 (D677).

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