Was Nietzsche an admirer of the ancient epic poems like The Odyssey and the Iliad? And was he by any chance exposed to Eastern epics like the Mahabharata and the Journey to the West?
Asking this because from his own work of This Spoke Zarathustra, the prose, in terms of style of writing, seems reminiscent of the strong imagery and strong emotion-evoking descriptive language that one would find in the epics of the past. The follow up question to this would be of he did read epics, was he only exposed to the Western epics like the ones written by Homer such as the Odyssey and the Iliad, or did he also have a chance to encounter epics from the East, such as those within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths like thr Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Journey to the West?
Asking this because from his own work of This Spoke Zarathustra, the prose, in terms of style of writing, seems reminiscent of the strong imagery and strong emotion-evoking descriptive language that one would find in the epics of the past. The follow up question to this would be of he did read epics, was he only exposed to the Western epics like the ones written by Homer such as the Odyssey and the Iliad, or did he also have a chance to encounter epics from the East, such as those within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths like thr Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Journey to the West?