“Im Kampf, Penthesilea und Achill”. Pentesilea y Aquiles: ¿Kleist y Goethe?

Abstract

This little essay aims at elaborating on the old theory of the literary agon between the german poets Heinrich von Kleist and Johann. Wolfgang Goethe. It provides some Greek elements until almost unnoticed to modern scholars, taking, as a sort of example, the tragedy Penthesilea of the Prussian author. Greek antiquity, androgyny and the agon itself, are points of view from which we may win new perspectives in approaching the so-called Goethezeit.